Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World
By: Sarah DiGregorio
4.40
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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1. The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives
By: Theresa Brown
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In a book as eye-opening as it is riveting, practicing nurse and New York Timescolumnist Theresa Br… read more
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- medical
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- nonfiction
- nursing
- audiobook
2. Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers
By: Barbara Ehrenreich , Deirdre English
3.96
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Women have always been healers, and medicine has always been an arena of struggle between female pr… read more
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3. The Light of the World
By: Elizabeth Alexander
4.22
Format: 649 pages, Hardcover
In The Light of the World, Elizabeth Alexander finds herself at an existential crossroads after the… read more
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4. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
By: Anne Fadiman
3.91
Format: 2 pages,
Lia Lee was born in 1981 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epi… read more
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5. I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse
By: Lee Gutkind
3.49
Format: None pages, Paperback
"I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out," a collection of true narratives, reflects the dynam… read more
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6. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.71
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
7. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
8. Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries
By: Lisa Sanders
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
As a Yale School of Medicine physician, the New York Times bestselling author of Every Patient Tell… read more
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- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- audiobook
9. The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
By: Ricardo Nuila
4.38
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In… read more
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- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
By: Sarah Bakewell
4.03
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores seven hundred years o… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
11. Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health
By: Anupam B. Jena
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Does timing, circumstance, or luck impact your health care? This groundbreaking book reveals the hi… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing World
By: Theresa MacPhail
3.89
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening exploration of allergies, from their first medical description in 1819 to the cuttin… read more
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- history
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
By: Maria Smilios
4.33
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remar… read more
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- history
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Missouria took in Mr. Morris’s information and this system of demarcating lives. Maps and lines had defined her entire life. They were drawn throughout history, straightened, elongated, bent up and d…"-Maria Smilios, The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
14. The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No
By: Carl Elliott
3.99
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Shocking cases of abusive medical research and the whistleblowers who spoke out against them, somet… read more
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- medical
- medicine
- history
- nonfiction
15. American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
By: Kevin Hazzard
4.57
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the fi… read more
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- history
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. Counting Lost Stars
By: Kim van Alkemade
4.08
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
New York Times bestselling author of Orphan #8, Kim van Alkemade returns with a gripping and poigna… read more
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17. Between Two Moons
By: Aisha Abdel Gawad
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving family story about identity, faith, and belonging set in the Muslim immigrant encla… read more
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18. Adult Drama: And Other Essays
By: Natalie Beach
3.14
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Named a Most Anticipated Book in... Harper’s Bazaar Elle Bookpage Vulture’s “Into It” From the wri… read more
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19. Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist
By: Jennifer Wright
4.19
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“This is the story of one of the boldest women in American history: a self-made millionaire, a cele… read more
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- medicine
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
By: Thomas Hager
4.18
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Behind every landmark drug is a story. It could be an oddball researcher’s genius insight, a cataly… read more
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- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain
By: Shankar Vedantam
3.85
Format: 272 pages, ebook
From the New York Times best-selling author and host of Hidden Brain comes a thought-provoking look… read more
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- nonfiction
"Our minds are vulnerable to myths, falsehoods and fictions not merely because we are dumb or stupid, but because we are frail, flawed and easily afraid. Advocating fearless rationality—an end to myth…"-Shankar Vedantam, Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain
22. The Sky Was Falling: A Young Surgeon's Story of Bravery, Survival, and Hope
By: Cornelia Griggs
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The dramatic, unforgettable, and ultimately cathartic diary of a young pediatric surgeon and mother… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
23. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
By: Anthony Fauci
4.59
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more
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- history
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- audiobook
24. The Car: The Rise and Fall of the Machine that Made the Modern World
By: Bryan Appleyard
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A spirited, insightful exploration of our favorite machine and it's cultural impact on society over… read more
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- history
25. Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World
By: Sarah DiGregorio
4.40
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“DiGregorio’s storytelling is pitch-perfect; narrative and nursing, she understands, come from the … read more
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- nursing
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26. The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal
By: Brian H. Williams
4.43
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
A tour de force that diagnoses the structural root of the violence that plagues us all Trauma su… read more
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- medicine
- nonfiction
- audiobook
27. Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net
By: Jessica Calarco
4.23
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the cau… read more
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- history
- audiobook
28. Bleed: Destroying Myths and Misogyny in Endometriosis Care
By: Tracey Lindeman
4.36
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A scorching examination of how we treat endometriosis today Have you ever been told that your pa… read more
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- audiobook
29. Depression, Anxiety, and Other Things We Don't Want to Talk About
By: Ryan Casey Waller
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Mental illness loves to tell lies. One of those lies is that you should be able to manage what you'… read more
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- audiobook
30. All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way
By: Fred C. Trump
4.07
Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition
With revealing, never-before-told stories, Fred C. Trump III, nephew of President Donald Trump, bre… read more
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- audiobook
31. Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir
By: Mary L. Trump
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller! A New York Times Nonfiction Book to R… read more
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