The Facemaker
By: Lindsey Fitzharris
4.29
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
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1. Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
By: Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
4.00
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize … read more
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- history
- biography
- medical
- historical
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"Not everything which comes from the birth parts of a woman is a human being."-Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
2. A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
By: Neil Bradbury
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant blend of science and crime, 'A TASTE FOR POISON' reveals how eleven notorious poisons a… read more
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- history
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"Sometimes what makes things toxic is exactly what allows them to be used for good."-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
"Rather than throw the white arsenic away, it was realised that money could be made by selling the substance as a poison to get rid of all kinds of vermin, including cockroaches, rats, stray animals -…"-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
3. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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- history
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"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
4. Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
By: Erika Engelhaupt
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Science reporter Erika Engelhaupt investigates the gross, strange, and morbid absurdities of our bo… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- medical
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"This kind of scientific boldness is something the world could use more of. All too often, we’re hemmed in by our fears and our sense of propriety. Some subjects simply aren’t discussed, or aren’t tak…"-Erika Engelhaupt, Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
5. 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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- science
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
6. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By: David Grann
4.19
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
7. The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
By: Sam Kean
4.00
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science Fr… read more
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"Many people agreed with one executive who sneered that [Thomas] Edison had a vacuum where his conscience ought to be."-Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
"A rival politician countered that he too supported the dissection of those who were sucking the public teat dry. He proposed starting with the royal family."-Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
8. All the Living and the Dead
By: Hayley Campbell
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A compelling and compassionate exploration of the death industry and the people—embalmers, detecti… read more
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"Death shows us what is buried in the living. By shielding ourselves from what happens past the moment of death we deny ourselves a deeper understanding of who we truly are."-Hayley Campbell, All the Living and the Dead
9. The Facemaker
By: Lindsey Fitzharris
4.29
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true s… read more
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- war
- nonfiction
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10. A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain
By: Sara Manning Peskin
4.21
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the ve… read more
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11. All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience
By: Jay Wellons
4.44
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“The surgical interventions in these pages are dizzying, but the fact that Jay Wellons can write as… read more
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12. How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America
By: Priya Fielding-Singh
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating look at dietary differences along class lines, revealing that lack of access to healt… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
13. Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
By: Greg Melville
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A lively tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our de… read more
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- historical
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- history
- audiobook
"Every life holds an epic tale, even if no one alive remembers it."-Greg Melville, Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
14. 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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- audiobook
- history
- biography
- medical
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- nonfiction
- science
"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
15. Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
By: Megan Rosenbloom
4.01
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest othe… read more
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"Human skin books—mostly made by nineteenth-century doctor bibliophiles—are the only books that are controversial not for the ideas they contain but for the physical makeup of the object itself."-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
"Anthropodermic books tell a complicated and uncomfortable take about the development of clinical medicine and the doctoring class, and the worst of what can come from the collision of acquisitiveness…"-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
"Many confirmed human skin books didn’t begin their print life in this controversial binding but were rebound by collectors, usually doctors who took the oldest or rarest texts in their private collec…"-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
"No wonder the public persists in connecting the idea of human skin books with Nazis. It's easier to believe that objects of human skin are made by monsters like Nazis and serial killers, and not the …"-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
16. What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
By: Barbara Butcher
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected a job at th… read more
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"People can handle the truth, but not uncertainty. The things they imagine are almost always more painful than the facts."-Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
17. Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery
By: Ira Rutkow
3.92
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From an eminent surgeon and historian comes the “by turns fascinating and ghastly” (The New York Ti… read more
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18. Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery
By: Paul Craddock
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Why did eighteenth-century dentists buy the live teeth of poor children?And what role did a sausage… read more
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19. Angst / Amok (German Edition)
By: Stefan Zweig
3.89
Format: 52 pages, Kindle Edition
In dieser Novelle betrügt eine gutsituierte Ehefrau ihren Mann. Längst hat sie sich an die Beziehu… read more
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20. Wonder Drug
By: Stephen Trzeciak
3.94
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A pair of doctors team up to illuminate, through neuroscience and captivating stories from their cl… read more
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