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An Elegant Defense Summary
An Elegant Defense
The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
by Matt Richtel 2019 448 pages
4.06
5.8K ratings
Science
Health
Medicine
Pleased to Meet Me Summary
Pleased to Meet Me
Genes, Germs, and the Curious Forces That Make Us Who We Are
by Bill Sullivan 2019 336 pages
4.03
1.1K ratings
Science
Biology
Psychology
How to Prevent the Next Pandemic Summary
How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
by Bill Gates 2022 304 pages
3.76
2.1K ratings
Science
Health
Politics
Stay off My Operating Table Summary
Stay off My Operating Table
A Heart Surgeon’s Metabolic Health Guide to Lose Weight, Prevent Disease, and Feel Your Best Every Day
by Philip Ovadia 2021 176 pages
4.42
832 ratings
Health
Nutrition
Food
Cure Summary
Cure
A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body
by Jo Marchant 2016 320 pages
4.09
3.7K ratings
Science
Health
Psychology
A Thousand Naked Strangers Summary
A Thousand Naked Strangers
a Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
by Kevin Hazzard 2016 261 pages
3.95
13.5K ratings
Memoir
Medical
Medicine
The Other Brain Summary
The Other Brain
From Dementia to Schizophrenia, How New Discoveries About the Brain Are Revolutionizing Medicine and Science
by R. Douglas Fields 2008 384 pages
4.12
1.7K ratings
Psychology
Neuroscience
Science
The Detox Miracle Sourcebook Summary
The Detox Miracle Sourcebook
Raw Foods and Herbs for Complete Cellular Regeneration
by Robert S. Morse N.D. 2004 372 pages
4.47
430 ratings
Health
Nutrition
Food
Knocking on Heaven's Door Summary
Knocking on Heaven's Door
The Path to a Better Way of Death
by Katy Butler 2013 322 pages
4.12
3.2K ratings
Memoir
Death
Medicine
The Vaccine Summary
The Vaccine
Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic
by Joe Miller 2021 288 pages
4.25
851 ratings
Science
History
Medicine
The Etiquette of Illness Summary
The Etiquette of Illness
What to Say When You Can't Find the Words
by Susan P. Halpern 2004 256 pages
3.76
593 ratings
Health
Self Help
Psychology
God's Hotel Summary
God's Hotel
A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
by Victoria Sweet 2012 372 pages
4.11
5.8K ratings
Medicine
Memoir
Medical
Memorizing Pharmacology Summary
Memorizing Pharmacology
A Relaxed Approach to Learning the Top 200 Brand and Generic Drugs by Classification
by Tony Guerra 2016 305 pages
4.12
116 ratings
Science
Medicine
Medical
Textbook of Medical Physiology Summary
Textbook of Medical Physiology
by Arthur C. Guyton 1969 1104 pages
4.25
2.5K ratings
Medicine
Medical
Science
Mind-Body Medicine Summary
Mind-Body Medicine
The New Science of Optimal Health
by Jason M. Satterfield 2013 19 pages
4.41
179 ratings
Health
Science
Psychology
The Oldest Cure in the World Summary
The Oldest Cure in the World
Adventures in the Art and Science of Fasting
by Steve Hendricks 2022 448 pages
4.01
272 ratings
Health
Science
Nutrition
Medical Terminology Summary
Medical Terminology
The Best and Most Effective Way to Memorize, Pronounce and Understand Medical Terms
by David Andersson 2016 241 pages
4.18
221 ratings
Medical
Textbooks
School
Anticancer. A New Way of Life Summary
Anticancer. A New Way of Life
by David Servan-Schreiber 2007 274 pages
4.40
5.6K ratings
Health
Science
Self Help
The Rules of Contagion Summary
The Rules of Contagion
Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop
by Adam Kucharski 2020 352 pages
3.86
2.2K ratings
Science
Health
Medicine
The Empathy Exams Summary
The Empathy Exams
by Leslie Jamison 2014 230 pages
3.67
15.6K ratings
Essays
Memoir
Psychology
Mosquito Summary
Mosquito
A Natural History of Our Most Persistent and Deadly Foe
by Andrew Spielman 2001 256 pages
3.88
420 ratings
Science
History
Biology
Your Life in My Hands Summary
Your Life in My Hands
A Junior Doctor's Story
by Rachel Clarke 2017 280 pages
3.78
4.0K ratings
Medicine
Medical
Memoir
Love Thy Neighbor Summary
Love Thy Neighbor
A Muslim Doctor's Struggle for Home in Rural America
by Ayaz Virji 2019 208 pages
4.14
1.9K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Religion
The Great Prostate Hoax Summary
The Great Prostate Hoax
How Big Medicine Hijacked the PSA Test and Caused a Public Health Disaster
by Richard J. Ablin 2014 272 pages
4.48
106 ratings
Health
Medical
Medicine
The Thyroid Connection Summary
The Thyroid Connection
Why You Feel Tired, Brain-Fogged, and Overweight - and How to Get Your Life Back
by Amy Myers 2016 425 pages
3.72
866 ratings
Health
Medical
Science
Sleep Summary
Sleep
A Very Short Introduction
by Steven W. Lockley 2012 146 pages
3.65
530 ratings
Science
Psychology
Health
How to Solve a Crime Summary
How to Solve a Crime
Stories from the Cutting Edge of Forensics
by Angela Gallop 2022 272 pages
3.63
252 ratings
Science
True Crime
Crime
Ending Parkinson's Disease Summary
Ending Parkinson's Disease
A Prescription for Action
by Ray Dorsey 2020 336 pages
4.32
286 ratings
Science
Health
Medicine
Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals Summary
Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals
How One Doctor's Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out
by Peter Pronovost 2010 282 pages
3.95
239 ratings
Medicine
Medical
Health
Follow the Science Summary
Follow the Science
How Big Pharma Misleads, Obscures, and Prevails
by Sharyl Attkisson 2024 336 pages
4.29
397 ratings
Health
Politics
Cult Classics
Invisible Heroes Summary
Invisible Heroes
Survivors of Trauma and How They Heal
by Belleruth Naparstek 2004 400 pages
4.28
218 ratings
Psychology
Self Help
School
The Gut Makeover Summary
The Gut Makeover
4 Weeks to Nourish Your Gut, Revolutionize Your Health, and Lose Weight
by Jeannette Hyde 2017 256 pages
3.91
456 ratings
Health
Self Help
Nutrition
Cannabis Is Medicine Summary
Cannabis Is Medicine
How Medical Cannabis and CBD Are Healing Everything from Anxiety to Chronic Pain
by Bonni Goldstein 2020 368 pages
4.47
118 ratings
Science
Health
Plants
How Do You Feel? Summary
How Do You Feel?
One Doctor's Search for Humanity in Medicine
by Jessi Gold 2024 288 pages
4.18
431 ratings
Memoir
Medicine
Medical
Heal Your Body, Cure Your Mind Summary
Heal Your Body, Cure Your Mind
Leaky Gut, Adrenal Fatigue, Liver Detox, Mental Health, Anxiety, Depression, Disease & Trauma, Mindfulness, Holistic Therapies, Diet, Nutrition & Food
by Ameet Aggarwal 2017 197 pages
4.02
183 ratings
Health
Medicine
Self Help
What I Wish People Knew About Dementia Summary
What I Wish People Knew About Dementia
by Wendy Mitchell 2022 240 pages
4.23
947 ratings
Psychology
Memoir
Health
Do You Believe in Magic? Summary
Do You Believe in Magic?
The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine
by Paul A. Offit 2013 304 pages
4.10
3.0K ratings
Science
Medicine
Health
The Making of You Summary
The Making of You
A Journey from Cell to Human
by Katharina Vestre 2018 141 pages
4.12
842 ratings
Science
Parenting
Biology
My Father's Brain Summary
My Father's Brain
Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's
by Sandeep Jauhar 2023 256 pages
4.12
1.3K ratings
Memoir
Health
Science
Snake Oil Science Summary
Snake Oil Science
The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine
by R. Barker Bausell 2007 324 pages
4.01
345 ratings
Science
Medicine
Health
E.R. Nurses Summary
E.R. Nurses
by James Patterson 2021 304 pages
4.18
7.7K ratings
Medical
Memoir
Medicine
What the Eyes Don't See Summary
What the Eyes Don't See
A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City
by Mona Hanna-Attisha 2018 384 pages
4.33
8.8K ratings
Memoir
Science
Book Club
Unaccountable Summary
Unaccountable
What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care
by Marty Makary 2012 256 pages
4.30
1.6K ratings
Health Care
Medical
Medicine
A Statin Nation Summary
A Statin Nation
Damaging Millions in a Brave New Post-health World
by Malcolm Kendrick 2018 303 pages
4.61
256 ratings
Medicine
Health
Nutrition
The Unseen Body Summary
The Unseen Body
A Doctor's Journey Through the Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy
by Jonathan Reisman 2021 224 pages
3.99
2.2K ratings
Science
Medicine
Health
Psychedelic Medicine Summary
Psychedelic Medicine
The Healing Powers of LSD, MDMA, Psilocybin, and Ayahuasca
by Richard Louis Miller 2017 256 pages
3.99
293 ratings
Psychology
Science
Plants
Treat Your Own Knees Summary
Treat Your Own Knees
Simple Exercises to Build Strength, Flexibility, Responsiveness and Endurance
by Jim Johnson 2003 116 pages
3.99
231 ratings
Health
Fitness
Medicine
The Secrets of People Who Never Get Sick Summary
The Secrets of People Who Never Get Sick
by Gene Stone 2010 212 pages
3.43
686 ratings
Health
Self Help
Medicine
Travelers to Unimaginable Lands Summary
Travelers to Unimaginable Lands
Stories of Dementia, the Caregiver, and the Human Brain
by Dasha Kiper 2023 272 pages
4.20
1.1K ratings
Psychology
Science
Health
The Family Gene Summary
The Family Gene
A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance into a Hopeful Future
by Joselin Linder 2017 272 pages
4.04
1.1K ratings
Memoir
Science
Medical
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