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The Yellow Demon of Fever

Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade

Manuel Barcia

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A Way of Life

Things, Thought, and Action in Chinese Medicine

Judith Farquhar

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Sick to Debt

How Smarter Markets Lead to Better Care

Peter A. Ubel, M.D.

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The Secret Poisoner

A Century of Murder

Linda Stratmann

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Florence Under Siege

Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City

John Henderson

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Mescaline

A Global History of the First Psychedelic

Mike Jay

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Rotten Bodies

Class and Contagion in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Kevin Siena

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The Master and His Emissary

The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
Second Edition, New Expanded Edition

Iain McGilchrist

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Itch, Clap, Pox

Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination

Noelle Gallagher

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The Language of Light

A History of Silent Voices

Gerald Shea

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Ill Composed

Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England

Olivia Weisser

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Risk, Chance, and Causation

Investigating the Origins and Treatment of Disease

Michael B. Bracken

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The Lock and Key of Medicine

Monoclonal Antibodies and the Transformation of Healthcare

Lara V. Marks

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Discovering Tuberculosis

A Global History, 1900 to the Present

Christian W. McMillen

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The Great Plague

A People's History

Evelyn Lord

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The Science of Human Perfection

How Genes Became the Heart of American Medicine

Nathaniel Comfort

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Writing History in the Age of Biomedicine

Roger Cooter with Claudia Stein

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Fatal Flaws

How a Misfolded Protein Baffled Scientists and Changed the Way We Look at the Brain

Jay Ingram

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Contagion

How Commerce Has Spread Disease

Mark Harrison

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The Great Manchurian Plague of 1910-1911

The Geopolitics of an Epidemic Disease

William C. Summers

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