Best Medical Nonfiction

1
La vita immortale di Henrietta Lacks
di Rebecca Skloot
14,764 utenti
743 recensioni
4.2
8 Members
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2
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
di Anne Fadiman
4,850 utenti
127 recensioni
4.2
7 Members
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4
L'uomo che scambiò sua moglie per un cappello
di Oliver Sacks
11,656 utenti
211 recensioni
3.9
8 Members
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5
Salvo complicazioni: appunti di un chirurgo americano su una scienza imperfetta
di Atul Gawande
3,128 utenti
84 recensioni
4.1
6 Members
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6
Risvegli
di Oliver Sacks
2,479 utenti
25 recensioni
3.9
6 Members
kidzdoc, kageeh, Chatterbox, smc1, abbottthomas, SylviaC
7
L'imperatore del male. Una biografia del cancro
di Siddhartha Mukherjee
5,070 utenti
197 recensioni
½ 4.3
5 Members
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8
The Medical Detectives, Volume 1
di Berton Roueché
418 utenti
4
5 Members
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9
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
di Randy Shilts
2,936 utenti
64 recensioni
½ 4.4
5 Members
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10
Epidemia. Storia della grande influenza del 1918 e della ricerca di un virus mortale
di Gina Kolata
1,281 utenti
35 recensioni
½ 3.7
5 Members
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11
The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
di Seth Mnookin
442 utenti
13 recensioni
4
4 Members
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12
The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine-Watcher
di Lewis Thomas
439 utenti
7 recensioni
4.2
4 Members
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13
The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America
di Gerald N. Grob
36 utenti
½ 4.3
3 Members
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14
A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor
di John Berger
318 utenti
11 recensioni
4
3 Members
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15
Coppola: A Pediatric Surgeon in Iraq
di Chris Coppola
77 utenti
45 recensioni
4.2
2 Members
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17
How Doctors Think
di Jerome Groopman
1,646 utenti
49 recensioni
½ 3.7
3 Members
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18
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
di Sherwin B. Nuland
2,173 utenti
28 recensioni
4.1
3 Members
kidzdoc, kageeh, HollyBoggie
19
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
di Laurie Garrett
1,750 utenti
27 recensioni
4.1
3 Members
smc1, HollyBoggie, SylviaC
20
Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
di Laurie Garrett
440 utenti
5 recensioni
3.8
3 Members
Chatterbox, smc1, HollyBoggie
21
Call the Midwife
di Jennifer Worth
2,479 utenti
137 recensioni
4.1
2 Members
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22
Five Patients: The Hospital Explained
di Michael Crichton
951 utenti
7 recensioni
3
2 Members
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23
Food For Thought (Volume 1)
di Emerald Lindsay
5 utenti
½ 4.5
2 Members
HollyBoggie, AquaMareen
24
In a House of Dreams and Glass: Becoming a Psychiatrist
di Robert Klitzman
39 utenti
1 recensione
½ 4.5
2 Members
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25
Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
di Pauline W. Chen
494 utenti
17 recensioni
3.8
3 Members
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26
Eleven Blue Men and Other Narratives of Medical Detection
di Berton Roueché
111 utenti
1 recensione
½ 4.5
3 Members
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28
For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women
di Barbara Ehrenreich
840 utenti
21 recensioni
3.8
2 Members
eromsted, HollyBoggie
29
Rethinking Thin
di Gina Kolata
304 utenti
13 recensioni
3.8
2 Members
Chatterbox, HollyBoggie
30
Seeing Patients: Unconscious Bias in Health Care
di Augustus A. White III
41 utenti
1 recensione
4
2 Members
kidzdoc, HollyBoggie
31
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues
di Paul Farmer
369 utenti
3 recensioni
4.1
2 Members
kidzdoc, eromsted
32
Death Be Not Proud
di John Gunther
2,467 utenti
37 recensioni
3.8
2 Members
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33
Con cura : diario di un medico deciso a fare meglio
di Atul Gawande
2,217 utenti
69 recensioni
4.1
2 Members
kidzdoc, kageeh
34
A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years As A Medical Student
di Perri Klass
183 utenti
3.8
2 Members
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35
Quacks: Fakers & Charlatans in English Medicine
di Roy Porter
79 utenti
1 recensione
3.8
2 Members
kidzdoc, HollyBoggie
36
Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic
di Pamela Weintraub
76 utenti
5 recensioni
3.9
2 Members
smc1, HollyBoggie
37
The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System
di Charles E. Rosenberg
102 utenti
4.2
2 Members
eromsted, HollyBoggie
38
Becoming a Doctor: A Journey of Initiation in Medical School
di Melvin Konner
151 utenti
½ 3.7
2 Members
kidzdoc, kageeh
39
Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates
di David Wootton
112 utenti
4 recensioni
4
2 Members
eromsted, HollyBoggie
41
Medical London: City of Diseases, City of Cures
di Richard Barnett
41 utenti
2 recensioni
½ 4.4
2 Members
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42
ˆIl ‰morbo dei dottori: la strana storia di Ignac Semmelweis
di Sherwin B. Nuland
254 utenti
6 recensioni
3.8
2 Members
kidzdoc, kageeh
43
Children's Hospital
di Peggy Anderson
76 utenti
1 recensione
4.1
Member
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44
Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine
di William Rosen
74 utenti
2 recensioni
4.1
Member
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45
Doctors east, doctors west; an American physician's life in China
di Edward H. Hume
14 utenti
Member
Chatterbox
46
Breve ma veridica storia della medicina occidentale
di Roy Porter
405 utenti
7 recensioni
½ 3.4
2 Members
kidzdoc, kageeh
47
Angel of Death: The Story of Smallpox
di Gareth Williams
60 utenti
2 recensioni
4.1
2 Members
kidzdoc, smc1
48
Match Day: One Day and One Dramatic Year in the Lives of Three New Doctors
di Brian Eule
83 utenti
7 recensioni
3.8
2 Members
kidzdoc, kageeh
49
The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir
di Sarah Manguso
212 utenti
9 recensioni
½ 3.6
2 Members
kidzdoc, smc1
50
Medicine in Translation: Journeys with My Patients
di Danielle Ofri
39 utenti
2 recensioni
3.8
2 Members
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51
Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue
di Danielle Ofri
128 utenti
5 recensioni
3.9
2 Members
kidzdoc, kageeh
52
Incidental Findings: Lessons from My Patients in the Art of Medicine
di Danielle Ofri
46 utenti
1 recensione
3.9
2 Members
kidzdoc, kageeh
53
Against Medical Advice
di James Patterson
969 utenti
37 recensioni
½ 3.6
Member
dara85
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Noi e il nostro corpo : scritto dalle donne per le donne.
di Boston Women's Health Book Collective
933 utenti
9 recensioni
4.1
Member
eromsted
55
Ask Me Why I Hurt: The Kids Nobody Wants and the Doctor Who Heals Them
di Randy Christensen
101 utenti
9 recensioni
4
Member
lahochstetler
56
The Paradox of Progress
di James Willis
3 utenti
Member
abbottthomas
57
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
di Henry Marsh
1,110 utenti
45 recensioni
4.1
Member
abbottthomas
58
Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death, and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
di Michael J. Collins
249 utenti
9 recensioni
3.8
Member
dara85
59
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present
di Roy Porter
842 utenti
7 recensioni
4
Member
eromsted
60
Some Lives: A G.P.'s East End
di David Widgery
27 utenti
4
Member
abbottthomas
61
Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon
di Henry Marsh
290 utenti
14 recensioni
½ 3.7
Member
abbottthomas
62
My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of Aids
di Abraham Verghese
1,091 utenti
28 recensioni
4.2
Member
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64
The Death of Humane Medicine: and the Rise of Coercive Healthism
di Petr Skrabanek
8 utenti
Member
abbottthomas
65
Hospital
di Polly Toynbee
5 utenti
Member
ahef1963
66
Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa
di Joan Jacobs Brumberg
313 utenti
4 recensioni
½ 3.7
Member
eromsted
67
Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, New and Expanded Edition
di James H. Jones
338 utenti
3 recensioni
3.8
Member
eromsted
68
Listening to Prozac
di Peter D. Kramer
914 utenti
7 recensioni
½ 3.4
Member
smc1
69
Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis
di Robert Proctor
151 utenti
4.1
Member
eromsted
70
Baby Doctor
di Perri Klass
40 utenti
1 recensione
½ 3.6
Member
kidzdoc
71
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
di Paul Farmer
687 utenti
8 recensioni
4.2
Member
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72
Nursing against the Odds
di Suzanne Gordon
78 utenti
1 recensione
4.8
Member
eromsted
73
Ancient Medicine
di Vivian Nutton
116 utenti
1 recensione
3.8
Member
eromsted
74
Framing Disease: Studies in Cultural History
di Charles E. Rosenberg
40 utenti
3
Member
eromsted
75
From Humors to Medical Science: A HISTORY OF AMERICAN MEDICINE
di John Duffy
28 utenti
3
Member
eromsted
76
The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy
di Bill Hayes
228 utenti
7 recensioni
½ 3.7
Member
kidzdoc
77
The Three Christs of Ypsilanti
di Milton Rokeach
383 utenti
21 recensioni
½ 3.6
Member
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