Medicine and Biology
Clinical medicine, public health, epidemics, neuroscience and the life sciences, including doctors' accounts of their own work. Read by clinicians, patients and readers interested in how bodies and diseases actually work.
186 books
Books 186
Siddhartha Mukherjee · 2010 · Cancer and the science-to-drug pipeline; Pulitzer winner.
T1 Being Mortal
Atul Gawande · 2014 · Where end-of-life spending goes, and why that demand is inelastic.
T1 The Gene
Siddhartha Mukherjee · 2016 · History of heredity from Mendel to gene editing
Beth Macy · 2018 · The epidemic from Appalachia upward; basis for the series.
Patrick Radden Keefe · 2021 · The definitive account of the family, the company and the marketing.
William H. McNeill · 1976 · Disease as a driver of history, trade and population
Robert M. Sapolsky · 1994 · Sapolsky on chronic stress and its effect on decision quality
T2 Genome
Matt Ridley · 1999 · Chromosome-by-chromosome tour of human genetics; a Munger latticework staple
Barry Meier · 2003 · The first book to expose OxyContin marketing; reissued 2018.
T2 Bad Pharma
Ben Goldacre · 2012 · Trial design, publication bias and regulatory failure.
Sam Quinones · 2015 · The demand side of the OxyContin market.
Elisabeth Rosenthal · 2017 · How healthcare spending is actually generated, payer by payer.
Katherine Eban · 2019 · Generic manufacturing and data fraud in offshore plants.
Gerald Posner · 2020 · Industry history covering J&J's opioid marketing and its regulatory politics.
Gardiner Harris · 2025 · Talc, opioids and Tylenol reexamined by a former NYT reporter.
E. Richard Brown · 1979 · How the philanthropy reshaped American medicine; the money after the oil.
Barry Werth · 1994 · Vertex from the inside; the classic account of drug discovery economics.
J. Craig Venter · 2007 · Insider account of the private race to sequence the human genome
Melody Petersen · 2008 · Drug marketing practices, including J&J's Risperdal and off-label promotion.
Sally Smith Hughes · 2011
Robert N. Proctor · 2011 · Built from the industry's own litigation document archive.
Gary Taubes · 2016 · Background on how the obesity market got as large as it is.
Chris McGreal · 2018 · Regulatory and distribution failures around the prescription epidemic.
Eric Eyre · 2020 · Pulitzer-winning local reporting on opioid distribution volumes.
Scott Higham, Sari Horwitz · 2022 · The distributors and the litigation that ran alongside Purdue.
T3 Gray Matters
Theodore H. Schwartz · 2024 · A neurosurgeon on how medical decisions and hospital incentives actually work
T3 Magic Pill
Johann Hari · 2024 · The first general book on the GLP-1 drugs; benefits, risks and social effect.
Richard Evans Schultes, Albert Hofmann, Christian Rätsch · 1979
Oliver Sacks · 1980
George C. Halvorson, George J. Isham · 2003
Elkhonon Goldberg · 2005
Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg · with Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg · 2006 · Creating Value-Based Competition on Results
Morton A. Meyers · 2007
Clayton Christensen, Jerome H. Grossman, Jason Hwang · with Jerome H. Grossman, Jason Hwang · 2009 · Open Library unreachable this run; title not machine-verified.
Peter Pronovost, Eric Vohr · 2010
Suchitra Shenoy, Pavithra K. Mehta · 2011
Eben Alexander · 2012
Joel T. Dudley, Konrad J. Karczewski · 2013
Naoki Higashida · 2013
Ezekiel J. Emanuel · 2014
Bessel A. van der Kolk · 2014
Thomas J. Bollyky · 2018
Gregory Zuckerman · 2021 · OL lists title as 'Shot to Save the World'
T4 The Big Fail
Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera · with Joe Nocera · 2023 · OL lists title as 'Big Fail'
Andrew W. Lo, Shomesh E. Chaudhuri · with Shomesh E. Chaudhuri · 2024 · Princeton University Press. Listed on Lo's MIT books page.
Christian Ziegler, Egbert G. Leigh
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Robert M. Sapolsky
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Peter A. Levin
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