19 must-read nonfiction books like How Medicine Works and When It Doesn't: Learning Who to Trust to Get and Stay Healthy by F. Perry Wilson

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How Medicine Works and When It Doesn't: Learning Who to Trust to Get and Stay Healthy

By: F. Perry Wilson

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Blending personal anecdotes with hard science, an accomplished physician, researcher, and science c…

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1. The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains

By: Robert H. Lustig

4.11

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

"Explores how industry has manipulated our most deep-seated survival instincts."--David Perlmutter,… read more

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  • science
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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2. Verbal Judo: The Gentle Art of Persuasion

By: Jerry B. Jenkins , George J. Thompson

3.00

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Improve communication, resolve conflicts, and avoid the most common conversational disasters throug… read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. How Doctors Think

By: Jerome Groopman

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. I… read more

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  • health care
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
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4. Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters

By: Charan Ranganath

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, on… read more

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  • science
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER

By: Farzon A. Nahvi

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Code Gray is a “provocative and meaningful” (Theresa Brown, New York Times bestselling author of He… read more

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  • science
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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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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  • science
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. 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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  • science
  • health care
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

By: Uché Blackstock

4.46

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

“Legacy is an illuminating and stirring journey of a book.” —Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times- bes… read more

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  • science
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Magic Words

By: Jonah Berger

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB 'MUST-READ' New York Times bestselling author Jonah Berger’s cutting-edge rese… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. 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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  • science
  • health care
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless

By: Laurah Norton

3.87

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating deep dive into the dark world of forensic science as experts team up to solve the ide… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness

By: Andrew Scull

4.10

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

For more than two hundred years, disturbances of the mind--the sorts of things that were once calle… read more

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  • audiobook
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The Unseen Body: A Doctor's Journey Through the Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy by Jonathan Reisman

13. The Unseen Body: A Doctor's Journey Through the Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy

By: Jonathan Reisman

3.99

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this fascinating journey through the human body and across the globe, Dr. Reisman weaves togethe… read more

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  • science
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Daybreak

By: Matt Gallagher

3.97

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A disillusioned American veteran volunteers for the war in Ukraine to reconnect with a woman from h… read more

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15. Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

By: Elle Reeve

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

This tour de force of investigative journalism—in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We’re Pola… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius by Kendra Adachi

16. The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius

By: Kendra Adachi

4.24

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Lazy Genius Way brings her beloved Kind Big Sister Ene… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves by Nicola Twilley

17. Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves

By: Nicola Twilley

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific my… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Eye of the Beholder

By: Emma Bamford

3.55

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller Vertigo , the author of the “subtle and ominous” (L… read more

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  • audiobook
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19. How Medicine Works and When It Doesn't: Learning Who to Trust to Get and Stay Healthy

By: F. Perry Wilson

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Blending personal anecdotes with hard science, an accomplished physician, researcher, and science c… read more

Similar categories in F. Perry Wilson's How Medicine Works and When It Doesn't: Learning Who to Trust to Get and Stay Healthy book and F. Perry Wilson's How Medicine Works and When It Doesn't: Learning Who to Trust to Get and Stay Healthy

  • science
  • health care
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Group Living and Other Recipes: A Memoir by Lola Milholland

20. Group Living and Other Recipes: A Memoir

By: Lola Milholland

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A spirited and timely exploration of group living that encourages readers to reconsider the meaning… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. Your Consent Is Not Required

By: Rob Wipond

3.88

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"Deeply researched, lucidly written… an important contribution to public policy debate and a profou… read more

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  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • health

16 must-read audiobook books like How Medicine Works and When It Doesn't: Learning Who to Trust to Get and Stay Healthy by F. Perry Wilson

Transform Your Habits

The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains

Robert H. Lustig

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters

Charan Ranganath

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER

Farzon A. Nahvi

3.92

Transform Your Habits

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.28

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20 Top audiobook books like Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness by Andrew Scull

Transform Your Habits

Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization

Paul Kriwaczek

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Sometimes Amazing Things Happen: Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward

Elizabeth Ford

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women

Christina Lamb

4.63

Transform Your Habits

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.28

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