Medicine and Biology

How mathematics and physical forces shape the forms of living things.

A biography of cancer, by a physician and oncologist.

End-of-life and hospice care, and why medicine should aim at well-being.

The gene from Mendel and Darwin to genome editing, beside a family's mental illness.

America's opioid crisis from OxyContin's 1996 launch through Central Appalachia.

Three generations of the Sackler family and how Purdue Pharma sold OxyContin.

How plague, cholera, malaria and smallpox shaped history.

Chronic stress and how it affects the quality of decisions.

Twenty-three chapters, one per chromosome, each using a gene to open a subject.

The first book to expose OxyContin marketing; reissued 2018.

Francis Crick's life, from a lacklustre education to discovering DNA's structure.

How drug companies distort medical evidence, starting with unpublished trials.

America's opiate epidemic, seen from the demand side of the OxyContin market.

How US healthcare became so costly and broken, and what patients can do.

Fraud in data and manufacturing at offshore generic-drug plants.

The US drug industry from patent medicines to the opioid epidemic and the Sacklers.

Johnson & Johnson's record on talc, opioids and Tylenol, reexamined.

How Rockefeller philanthropy reshaped American medicine.

Vertex from the inside; the classic account of drug discovery economics.

The truth behind the tobacco industry's cover-up.

How drug companies turned from discovering drugs to marketing them.

Insider account of the private race to sequence the human genome

How drug makers became marketing machines, from Risperdal to off-label promotion.

How tobacco chemists engineered cigarettes, drawn from the industry's own documents.

Background on how the obesity market got as large as it is.

How drug makers, regulators and distributors let the US opioid epidemic grow.

How a West Virginia town of 382 people got 12 million opioid pills in three years.

The drug distributors behind the opioid epidemic and the lawsuits against them.

A neurosurgeon on how medical decisions and hospital incentives actually work

The GLP-1 drugs: their benefits, their risks and their effects on society.

Confessions of an American writer who travelled widely and lived unconventionally.

Women's roles and choices, with detailed treatment of women's health and hygiene.

The botany and chemistry of hallucinogenic plants and how people have used them.

Investigations into Ebola and other African viruses, their strains and outbreaks.

Fictional sexual scenes, each read by an evolutionary biologist for its instincts.

What patients with odd neurological disorders reveal about the brain and the self.

Paul Farmer, the doctor who co-founded Partners In Health, treating the poor.

The 1918 flu: how it spread from a Kansas army camp and killed up to 100 million.

The American fear of polio and the race for a cure, from the March of Dimes to Salk.

An introduction to the structure and function of the nervous system for students.

The main findings on disease-control priorities for developing countries.

Creating Value-Based Competition on Results

How music acts on the brain, through patients, musicians and ordinary people.

A brain scientist watches her own mind shut down during a massive stroke.

How trivial-seeming questions lead to deeper insight into how science works.

How checklists stop experts in complex fields failing to apply what they know.

A neurosurgeon in a coma describes a journey beyond this world to a divine source.

How trauma reshapes the body and brain, and the treatments that help survivors.

A neurosurgeon diagnosed with lung cancer at 36 asks what makes life worth living.

The 1918 Spanish flu, which killed 50 to 100 million, through history and science.

The history and revival of psychedelic research, and the author's own trips.

The science, myths and business of blood, from bloodletting to plasma sales.

Why key information failed to reach doctors in West Africa's Ebola epidemic.

The scientists racing to make the immune system fight cancer: immunotherapy's story.

The case that ageing is a disease that can be treated, and the theory behind it.

How sleep, diet and social media feed ADHD-like traits, with Trump as a case study.

A tour of the human body: how it works, how it heals itself and how it fails.

Princeton University Press. Listed on Lo's MIT books page.

The emptying of America's mental hospitals, told through one mentally ill brother.

The politics, financing and delivery of Singapore's healthcare over five decades.