Best Medical Nonfiction

1
La Vie immortelle d'Henrietta Lacks
de Rebecca Skloot
14,683 membres
741 critiques
4.2
8 Members
kidzdoc, kageeh, ijustgetbored, Siamcat, norabelle414, SylviaC, cej1027, ahef1963
2
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
de Anne Fadiman
4,837 membres
127 critiques
4.2
7 Members
kidzdoc, kageeh, wandering_star, ijustgetbored, lahochstetler, cej1027, valeriepatton
5
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
de Atul Gawande
3,118 membres
84 critiques
4.1
6 Members
SqueakyChu, kidzdoc, kageeh, smc1, abbottthomas, ahef1963
6
L'éveil
de Oliver Sacks
2,472 membres
25 critiques
3.9
6 Members
kidzdoc, kageeh, Chatterbox, smc1, abbottthomas, SylviaC
7
L'empereur de toutes les maladies : Une biographie du cancer
de Siddhartha Mukherjee
5,055 membres
196 critiques
½ 4.3
5 Members
kidzdoc, kageeh, smc1, elkiedee, ahef1963
8
The Medical Detectives, Volume 1
de Berton Roueché
416 membres
4
5 Members
kidzdoc, kageeh, smc1, HollyBoggie, SylviaC
9
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
de Randy Shilts
2,927 membres
64 critiques
½ 4.4
5 Members
kidzdoc, eromsted, kageeh, Chatterbox, ijustgetbored
10
Flu
de Gina Kolata
1,279 membres
35 critiques
½ 3.7
5 Members
kidzdoc, kageeh, Chatterbox, smc1, SylviaC
11
The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
de Seth Mnookin
440 membres
13 critiques
4
4 Members
eromsted, kageeh, Chatterbox, smc1
12
The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine-Watcher
de Lewis Thomas
438 membres
7 critiques
4.2
4 Members
kidzdoc, kageeh, smc1, HollyBoggie
13
The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America
de Gerald N. Grob
36 membres
½ 4.3
3 Members
eromsted, smc1, HollyBoggie
14
Un métier idéal : Histoire d'un médecin de campagne
de John Berger
315 membres
10 critiques
4.1
3 Members
kidzdoc, abbottthomas, HollyBoggie
15
Coppola: A Pediatric Surgeon in Iraq
de Chris Coppola
77 membres
45 critiques
4.2
2 Members
streamsong, fridaanddiego
17
How Doctors Think
de Jerome Groopman
1,642 membres
49 critiques
½ 3.7
3 Members
kidzdoc, kageeh, valeriepatton
18
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
de Sherwin B. Nuland
2,165 membres
28 critiques
4.1
3 Members
kidzdoc, kageeh, HollyBoggie
19
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
de Laurie Garrett
1,745 membres
27 critiques
4.1
3 Members
smc1, HollyBoggie, SylviaC
20
Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
de Laurie Garrett
438 membres
5 critiques
3.8
3 Members
Chatterbox, smc1, HollyBoggie
21
Call the Midwife
de Jennifer Worth
2,464 membres
137 critiques
4.1
2 Members
elkiedee, ahef1963
22
Five patients
de Michael Crichton
952 membres
7 critiques
3
2 Members
kageeh, raidergirl3
23
Food For Thought (Volume 1)
de Emerald Lindsay
5 membres
½ 4.5
2 Members
HollyBoggie, AquaMareen
24
In a House of Dreams and Glass: Becoming a Psychiatrist
de Robert Klitzman
39 membres
1 critique
½ 4.5
2 Members
lahochstetler, smc1
25
Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
de Pauline W. Chen
494 membres
17 critiques
3.8
3 Members
kidzdoc, kageeh, HollyBoggie
26
Eleven Blue Men and Other Narratives of Medical Detection
de Berton Roueché
110 membres
1 critique
½ 4.5
3 Members
kageeh, smc1, HollyBoggie
28
For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women
de Barbara Ehrenreich
838 membres
21 critiques
3.8
2 Members
eromsted, HollyBoggie
29
Rethinking Thin
de Gina Kolata
305 membres
13 critiques
3.8
2 Members
Chatterbox, HollyBoggie
30
Seeing Patients: Unconscious Bias in Health Care
de Augustus A. White III
40 membres
1 critique
4
2 Members
kidzdoc, HollyBoggie
31
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues
de Paul Farmer
368 membres
3 critiques
4.1
2 Members
kidzdoc, eromsted
32
Death Be Not Proud
de John Gunther
2,462 membres
37 critiques
3.8
2 Members
kageeh, dara85
33
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
de Atul Gawande
2,207 membres
69 critiques
4.1
2 Members
kidzdoc, kageeh
34
A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years As A Medical Student
de Perri Klass
183 membres
3.8
2 Members
kidzdoc, lahochstetler
35
Quacks: Fakers & Charlatans in English Medicine
de Roy Porter
79 membres
1 critique
3.8
2 Members
kidzdoc, HollyBoggie
36
Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic
de Pamela Weintraub
76 membres
5 critiques
3.9
2 Members
smc1, HollyBoggie
37
The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System
de Charles E. Rosenberg
101 membres
4.2
2 Members
eromsted, HollyBoggie
38
Becoming a Doctor: A Journey of Initiation in Medical School
de Melvin Konner
150 membres
½ 3.7
2 Members
kidzdoc, kageeh
39
Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates
de David Wootton
112 membres
4 critiques
4
2 Members
eromsted, HollyBoggie
41
Medical London: City of Diseases, City of Cures
de Richard Barnett
40 membres
2 critiques
½ 4.4
2 Members
kidzdoc, smc1
42
The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis
de Sherwin B. Nuland
254 membres
6 critiques
3.8
2 Members
kidzdoc, kageeh
43
Children's Hospital
de Peggy Anderson
76 membres
1 critique
4.1
Member
dara85
44
Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine
de William Rosen
74 membres
2 critiques
4.1
Member
Bretzky1
46
Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine
de Roy Porter
403 membres
7 critiques
½ 3.4
2 Members
kidzdoc, kageeh
47
Angel of Death: The Story of Smallpox
de Gareth Williams
59 membres
2 critiques
4.1
2 Members
kidzdoc, smc1
48
Match Day: One Day and One Dramatic Year in the Lives of Three New Doctors
de Brian Eule
82 membres
7 critiques
3.8
2 Members
kidzdoc, kageeh
49
The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir
de Sarah Manguso
209 membres
9 critiques
½ 3.6
2 Members
kidzdoc, smc1
50
Medicine in Translation: Journeys with My Patients
de Danielle Ofri
39 membres
2 critiques
3.8
2 Members
kidzdoc, kageeh
51
Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue
de Danielle Ofri
128 membres
5 critiques
3.9
2 Members
kidzdoc, kageeh
52
Incidental Findings: Lessons from My Patients in the Art of Medicine
de Danielle Ofri
45 membres
1 critique
3.9
2 Members
kidzdoc, kageeh
53
Against Medical Advice
de James Patterson
965 membres
37 critiques
½ 3.6
Member
dara85
54
Notre corps, nous-mêmes
de Boston Women's Health Book Collective
933 membres
9 critiques
4.1
Member
eromsted
55
Ask Me Why I Hurt: The Kids Nobody Wants and the Doctor Who Heals Them
de Randy Christensen
101 membres
9 critiques
4
Member
lahochstetler
56
The Paradox of Progress
de James Willis
3 membres
Member
abbottthomas
57
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
de Henry Marsh
1,101 membres
45 critiques
4.1
Member
abbottthomas
58
Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death, and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
de Michael J. Collins
249 membres
9 critiques
3.8
Member
dara85
59
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present
de Roy Porter
839 membres
7 critiques
4
Member
eromsted
60
Some Lives: A G.P.'s East End
de David Widgery
27 membres
4
Member
abbottthomas
61
Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon
de Henry Marsh
288 membres
14 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
abbottthomas
62
My Own Country: A Doctor's Story
de Abraham Verghese
1,091 membres
28 critiques
4.2
Member
kidzdoc
65
Hospital
de Polly Toynbee
5 membres
Member
ahef1963
66
Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa
de Joan Jacobs Brumberg
312 membres
4 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
eromsted
67
Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, New and Expanded Edition
de James H. Jones
337 membres
3 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
eromsted
68
Listening to Prozac
de Peter D. Kramer
912 membres
7 critiques
½ 3.4
Member
smc1
69
Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis
de Robert Proctor
151 membres
4.1
Member
eromsted
70
Baby Doctor
de Perri Klass
40 membres
1 critique
½ 3.6
Member
kidzdoc
71
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
de Paul Farmer
683 membres
8 critiques
4.2
Member
kidzdoc
72
Nursing against the Odds
de Suzanne Gordon
78 membres
1 critique
4.8
Member
eromsted
73
Ancient Medicine
de Vivian Nutton
116 membres
1 critique
3.8
Member
eromsted
74
Framing Disease: Studies in Cultural History
de Charles E. Rosenberg
40 membres
3
Member
eromsted
75
From Humors to Medical Science: A HISTORY OF AMERICAN MEDICINE
de John Duffy
28 membres
3
Member
eromsted
76
The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy
de Bill Hayes
227 membres
7 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
kidzdoc
77
The Three Christs of Ypsilanti
de Milton Rokeach
380 membres
21 critiques
½ 3.6
Member
kidzdoc