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sharp_young_lady's "Books on the History of Disease, Health, and Medicine"

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  1. 4.
    Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health
    by Judith Walzer Leavitt

  2. 6.
    Polio: An American Story
    by David M. Oshinsky

  3. 7.
    A Summer Plague: Polio and Its Survivors
    by Mr. Tony Gould

  4. 10.
    Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82
    by Elizabeth A. Fenn

  5. 12.
    The Greatest Killer: Smallpox in History
    by Donald R. Hopkins

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  7. 19.
    Plagues and Peoples
    by William H. McNeill

  8. 21.
    America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918
    by Alfred W. Crosby

  9. 27.
    How the Other Half Lives, Special Illustrated Edition
    by Jacob Riis

  10. 28.
    The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866
    by Charles E. Rosenberg

  11. 32.
    Of Mice, Men, and Microbes: Hantavirus
    by David R. Harper

  12. 34.
    Laboratory Disease: Robert Koch's Medical Bacteriology
    by Christoph Gradmann

  13. 36.
    The Private Science of Louis Pasteur
    by Gerald L. Geison

  14. 39.
    A Brief History of Disease, Science and Medicine
    by Michael T. Kennedy MD

  15. 41.
    Doctors: The Biography of Medicine
    by Sherwin B. Nuland

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  18. 51.
    Plague Race
    by Edward Marriott

  19. 52.
    Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China
    by Carol Benedict

  20. 57.
    Venereal Disease and the Lewis and Clark Expedition
    by Thomas P. Lowry

  21. 64.
    The AIDS Pandemic in Latin America
    by Shawn Smallman

  22. 66.
    The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
    by Anne Fadiman

  23. 68.
    Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex
    by Alice Domurat Dreger

  24. 69.
    Epidemics and History: Disease, Power and Imperialism
    by Dr. Sheldon Watts

  25. 74.
    Plagues
    by Christopher Wills

  26. 76.
    Yellow Fever and the South
    by Margaret Humphreys

  27. 77.
    Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States
    by Margaret Humphreys

  28. 80.
    The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System
    by Charles E. Rosenberg

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  30. 82.
    Explaining Epidemics: and Other Studies in the History of Medicine
    by Charles E. Rosenberg

  31. 83.
    Our Present Complaint: American Medicine, Then and Now
    by Charles E. Rosenberg

  32. 95.
    Medical Detective
    by Sandra Hempel

  33. 96.
    Cholera, Chloroform and the Science of Medicine: A Life of John Snow
    by Peter Vinten-Johansen

  34. 98.
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    by Rebecca Skloot

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