Breath from Salt: A Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the Patients and Families Who Changed Medicine Forever
By: Bijal P. Trivedi
4.43
Format: 615 pages, Hardcover
Cystic fibrosis was once a mysterious disease that killed infants and children. Now it could be the…
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1. 10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness
By: Alanna Collen
3.83
Format: None pages, Hardcover
You are just 10% human. For every one of the cells that make up the vessel that you call your body,… read more
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2. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.26
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane "biography" of cancer--from its fir… read more
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3. I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
By: Izzeldin Abuelaish
3.73
Format: None pages,
By turns inspiring and heart-breaking, hopeful and horrifying, I Shall Not Hateis Izzeldin Abuelais… read more
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4. The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
By: Daniel E. Lieberman
3.87
Format: 252 pages, ebook
A landmark book of popular science--a lucid, engaging account of how the human body evolved over mi… read more
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5. The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Doris Kearns Goodwin, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of Team of Rivals, captures the Progr… read more
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6. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.28
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more
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7. When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
By: Joshua D. Mezrich
4.23
Format: 384 pages, ebook
At the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, transplanting organs fro… read more
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"Po powrocie do Oxfordu Medawar skupił się całkowicie na sprawdzeniu hipotezy, że odrzucanie przeszczepu allogenicznego jest zjawiskiem immunologicznym."-Joshua D. Mezrich, When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
"The sick suffer alone, they undergo procedures and surgeries alone, and in the end, they die alone. Transplant is different. Transplant is all about having someone else join you in your illness. It m…"-Joshua D. Mezrich, When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
8. The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery
By: Barbara K. Lipska
3.88
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Neuroscientist Lipska was diagnosed early in 2015 with metastatic melanoma in her brain's frontal l… read more
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"Ich hoffe, dass meine persönliche Erfahrung wenigstens Zu der Erkenntnis beiträgt, dass psychisch kranke Menschen ebenso wenig für ihre Krankheit verantwortlich sind wie Krebskranke und dass die best…"-Barbara K. Lipska, The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery
9. Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
By: Alexa Hagerty
4.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims' families to investigate crimes against h… read more
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10. For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug
By: Nathan Vardi
4.30
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A gripping business narrative and scientific thriller about what it takes to bring a wonder drug to… read more
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11. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
By: Walter Isaacson
4.29
Format: 536 pages, Hardcover
When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a pape… read more
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"The beauty of nature and the joy that comes from unstructured human engagement is a powerful combination."-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
"Does empathy depend on believing that but for the grace of God, or the randomness of the natural lottery, we could have been born with a different set of endowments?"-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
"She felt at home in the lab. It was a quiet temple for individual persistence and contemplation. She could be creative and independent as she pursued a path toward her own discoveries."-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
12. An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
By: Matt Richtel
4.06
Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition
A magnificently reported and soulfully crafted exploration of the human immune system–the key to he… read more
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"Ideas ... can elicit a kind of autoimmune response - an overreaction that feels protective initially but can ultimately be counterproductive and make it harder to find truth."-Matt Richtel, An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
13. Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life
By: Mallory Smith
4.49
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The diaries of a remarkable young woman who was determined to live a meaningful and happy life desp… read more
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14. The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
By: Kate Zernike
4.42
Format: 411 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who broke the story, the inspiring account of the sixtee… read more
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"The women had spent their careers trying not to think about being women, hoping they would be seen as scientists. But as the first or only in so many settings, they felt they had to live up to a high…"-Kate Zernike, The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
15. Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims
By: Jennifer Vanderbes
4.40
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of the most notorious drug of the twentieth century and the never-before-told st… read more
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16. Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
By: Rose George
3.83
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening exploration of blood, the lifegiving substance with the power of taboo, the value of… read more
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"There is nothing like it. It is stardust and the sea. The iron in our blood comes from the death of supernovas, like all iron on our planet.5 This bright red liquid—brighter in the arteries, when it …"-Rose George, Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
"She squints into the distance, this young woman who looks strong but who statistics say is still too vulnerable to violence and abuse and infection. I want her to triumph because she deserves to. I k…"-Rose George, Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
17. By the Time You Read This: The Space between Cheslie's Smile and Mental Illness—Her Story in Her Own Words
By: April Simpkins
4.18
Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition
By the Time You Read This is the story former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst was about to publish before he… read more
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18. Breath from Salt: A Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the Patients and Families Who Changed Medicine Forever
By: Bijal P. Trivedi
4.43
Format: 615 pages, Hardcover
Cystic fibrosis was once a mysterious disease that killed infants and children. Now it could be the… read more
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19. The Messenger: Moderna, the Vaccine, and the Business Gamble That Changed the World
By: Peter Loftus
4.09
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
At the start of 2020, Moderna was a waning biotech unicorn, still years away from delivering its fi… read more
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20. Making Sense of Science: Separating Substance from Spin
By: Cornelia Dean
3.90
Format: 281 pages, Hardcover
"I'm not a scientist" is a familiar refrain among people asked to evaluate scientific claims they f… read more
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