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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
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Medical Apartheid

By Harriet A. Washington ,

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The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
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The Facemaker

By Lindsey Fitzharris ,

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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
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Mountains Beyond Mountains

By Tracy Kidder , Michael French ,

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A Beginner's Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death
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A Beginner's Guide to the End

By Bj Miller , Shoshana Berger ,

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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

By Anne Fadiman ,

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Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
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Medical Bondage

By Deirdre Cooper Owens ,

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If I Stay
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If I Stay

By Gayle Forman ,

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Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence That Caring Makes a Difference
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Compassionomics

By Stephen Trzeciak , Anthony Mazzarelli ,

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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
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The Checklist Manifesto

By Atul Gawande ,

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We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of the American Women Trapped on Bataan
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We Band of Angels

By Elizabeth M. Norman ,

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Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam
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Home Before Morning

By Lynda Van Devanter ,

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The Great American Drug Deal: A New Prescription for Innovative and Affordable Medicines
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The Great American Drug Deal

By Peter Kolchinsky ,

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The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care--And How to Fix It
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The Price We Pay

By Marty Makary ,

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Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It
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Sickening

By John Abramson ,

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Elsie and Mairi Go to War
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Elsie and Mairi Go to War

By Diane Atkinson ,

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Between the Lines: Diaries and Letters from Elsie Inglis's Russian Unit
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Between the Lines

By Audrey Fawcett Cahill ,

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Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America
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Women at the Front

By Jane E. Schultz ,

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Kate Cumming's Civil War Journal
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Kate Cumming's Civil War Journal

By Kate Cumming ,

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Humor and the Health Professions: The Therapeutic Use of Humor in Health Care
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Humor and the Health Professions

By Vera Robinson ,

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Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy, and Childbirth
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Birthing Justice

By Julia Oparah (editor) , Alicia Bonaparte (editor) ,

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Unknown Warriors: The Letters of Kate Luard RRC and Bar, Nursing Sister in France 1914-1918
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Unknown Warriors

By John Stevens , Caroline Stevens ,

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Russia's Sisters of Mercy and the Great War: More Than Binding Men's Wounds
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Russia's Sisters of Mercy and the Great War

By Laurie S. Stoff ,

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Officer, Nurse, Woman: The Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War
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Officer, Nurse, Woman

By Kara Dixon Vuic ,

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A Breast Cancer Alphabet
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A Breast Cancer Alphabet

By Madhulika Sikka ,

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Rare and Resilient
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Rare and Resilient

By Greg Ryan ,

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Physick and the Family: Health, Medicine and Care in Wales, 1600-1750
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Physick and the Family

By Alun Withey ,

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Emergency Childbirth: A Manual
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Emergency Childbirth

By Gregory J. White ,

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Dr. Fauci: How a Boy from Brooklyn Became America's Doctor
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Dr. Fauci

By Kate Messner , Alexandra Bye (illustrator) ,

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The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
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The Places That Scare You

By Pema Chödrön ,

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Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840
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Medicalizing Blackness

By Rana A. Hogarth ,

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The Logic of Care: Health and the Problem of Patient Choice
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The Logic of Care

By Annemarie Mol ,

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Law and Bioethics: An Introduction
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Law and Bioethics

By Jerry Menikoff ,

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Time's Now for Women Healthcare Leaders: A Guide for the Journey
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Time's Now for Women Healthcare Leaders

By Patricia A. Gabow ,

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Fixing the Primary Care Crisis: Reclaiming the Patient-Doctor Relationship and Returning Healthcare Decisions to You and Your Doctor
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Fixing the Primary Care Crisis

By Stephen C. Schimpff ,

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Understanding Healthcare: A historical perspective
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Understanding Healthcare

By Kenneth A. Fisher ,

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Never Pay the First Bill: And Other Ways to Fight the Health Care System and Win
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Never Pay the First Bill

By Marshall Allen ,

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Psychiatric Casualties: How and Why the Military Ignores the Full Cost of War
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Psychiatric Casualties

By Mark C. Russell , Charles Figley ,

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Fatal Decision: Edith Cavell, World War I Nurse
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Fatal Decision

By Terri Arthur ,

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Doctoring Freedom: The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation
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Doctoring Freedom

By Gretchen Long ,

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Priced Out: The Economic and Ethical Costs of American Health Care
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Priced Out

By Uwe E. Reinhardt ,

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Tracking Medicine: A Researcher's Quest to Understand Health Care
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Tracking Medicine

By John E. Wennberg ,

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Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society with "A Response to My Critics"
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Setting Limits

By Daniel Callahan ,

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The Poison Diaries
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The Poison Diaries

By Maryrose Wood , The Duchess of Northumberland ,

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The Prison Doctor
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The Prison Doctor

By Amanda Brown ,

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Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: AI, Machine Learning, and Deep and Intelligent Medicine Simplified for Everyone
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Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

By Parag Suresh Mahajan ,

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Robethics: Ethical implications, risks, and opportunities of the rise of intelligent machines
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Robethics

By Matteo Di Michele ,

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The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry
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The Social Transformation of American Medicine

By Paul Starr ,

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The Quality Cure: How Focusing on Health Care Quality Can Save Your Life and Lower Spending Too
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The Quality Cure

By David Cutler ,

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When We Do Harm: A Doctor Confronts Medical Error
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When We Do Harm

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Life and Solitude In Easter Island
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Life and Solitude In Easter Island

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Tenmile
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Tenmile

By Sandra Dallas ,

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Well: What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About Health
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Well

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The Mysterious Private Thompson: The Double Life of Sarah Emma Edmonds, Civil War Soldier
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The Mysterious Private Thompson

By Laura Leedy Gansler ,

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Pharmaphobia: How the Conflict of Interest Myth Undermines American Medical Innovation
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Pharmaphobia

By Thomas P. Stossel ,

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Aftershock: What to Do When the Doctor Gives You--Or Someone You Love--A Devastating Diagnosis
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Aftershock

By Jessie Gruman ,

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The Long COVID Survival Guide: Stories and Advice from Twenty Long-Haulers and Experts
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The Long COVID Survival Guide

By Fiona Lowenstein (editor) ,

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The Caregiver's Encyclopedia: A Compassionate Guide to Caring for Older Adults
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The Caregiver's Encyclopedia

By Muriel R. Gillick ,

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Josie's Story: A Mother's Inspiring Crusade to Make Medical Care Safe
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Josie's Story

By Sorrel King ,

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Bitter Medicine: A Graphic Memoir of Mental Illness
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Bitter Medicine

By Clem Martini , Olivier Martini (illustrator) ,

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Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health
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Limits to Medicine

By Ivan Illich ,

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Facing Death: Spirituality, Science, and Surrender at the End of Life
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Facing Death

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The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
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The People's Hospital

By Ricardo Nuila ,

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Global Health Priority-Setting
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Global Health Priority-Setting

By Ole F. Norheim (editor) , Joseph Millum (editor) , Ezekiel J. Emanuel (editor)

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