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Some useful books on medical history
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: Medical History of HumanityThe Greatest Benefit to Mankind: Medical History of Humanity by Roy Porter
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The best single-volume history of medicine
Flesh in the Age of ReasonFlesh in the Age of Reason by Roy Porter
Buy new: £7.65 / Used from: £5.23
Superb study of enlightenment thinkers
National Health Service: A Political HistoryNational Health Service: A Political History by Charles Webster
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Excellent history of our wonderful NHS
Elizabeth Garrett AndersonElizabeth Garrett Anderson by Jo Manton
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Great biography of pioneer of women's medical education
NHS Plc: The Privatisation of Our Health CareNHS Plc: The Privatisation of Our Health Care by Allyson M Pollock
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Shows how bad Labour has been for the NHS
The Discovery of the Germ (Revolutions in science)The Discovery of the Germ (Revolutions in science) by John Waller
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Good account of a great medical discovery
Framing Disease : Studies in Cultural History: Health and Medicine in American Society (Dilemmas in World Politics)Framing Disease : Studies in Cultural History: Health and Medicine in American Society (Dilemmas in World Politics) by Charles E. Rosenberg
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Useful studies in history of medicine
Medicine's 10 Greatest Discoveries (Yale Nota Bene)Medicine's 10 Greatest Discoveries (Yale Nota Bene) by M Friedman
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Stories of important discoveries
Bad Medicine: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Distance Healing to Vitamin O (Wiley bad science series)Bad Medicine: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Distance Healing to Vitamin O (Wiley bad science series) by Christopher Wanjek
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Shows that there has been bad medicine too.
MMR and Autism: What Parents Need to KnowMMR and Autism: What Parents Need to Know by Michael Fitzpatrick
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Fine history of the MMR scare
Soul Made FleshSoul Made Flesh by Carl Zimmer
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Account of the origins of neurology
Hippocratic Oaths: Medicine and Its DiscontentsHippocratic Oaths: Medicine and Its Discontents by Raymond Tallis
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Brings the history of medicine up to date
Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years, 1830-1910 (Penguin history)Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years, 1830-1910 (Penguin history) by Richard J. Evans
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Brilliant account of how liberalism caused a public health disaster in 19th-century Hamburg