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🗂️ Nosology

The systematic classification of diseases—books exploring how we name, categorize, and understand illness, and how those categories shape medical practice and patient experience.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR
by American Psychiatric Association • 1952
A taxonomy of mental disorders built on evidence and clinical judgment, not on theory or assumption.
3.90
12k+
🩺 Clinical Diagnosis📋 Diagnostic Manuals📊 Clinical Assessment
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR Summary
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR 90%
A taxonomy of mental disorders built on evidence and clinical judgment, not on theory or assumption.
by American Psychiatric Association 1952
3.90
12k+ ratings
🩺 Clinical Diagnosis📋 Diagnostic Manuals📊 Clinical Assessment
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-5
by American Psychiatric Association • 2013
Mental health's diagnostic rulebook, reorganized to reflect that disorders bleed into one another.
4.16
4k+
🩺 Clinical Diagnosis📋 Psychiatric Taxonomy🔍 Differential Diagnosis
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-5 Summary
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-5 90%
Mental health's diagnostic rulebook, reorganized to reflect that disorders bleed into one another.
by American Psychiatric Association 2013
4.16
4k+ ratings
🩺 Clinical Diagnosis📋 Psychiatric Taxonomy🔍 Differential Diagnosis
Every Patient Tells a Story
by Lisa Sanders • 2009
Most diagnoses are found in what the patient says, yet doctors cut them off within seconds.
3.96
9k+
🩺 Clinical Diagnosis📖 Narrative Medicine⚠️ Diagnostic Errors
Every Patient Tells a Story Summary
Every Patient Tells a Story 89%
Most diagnoses are found in what the patient says, yet doctors cut them off within seconds.
by Lisa Sanders 2009
3.96
9k+ ratings
🩺 Clinical Diagnosis📖 Narrative Medicine⚠️ Diagnostic Errors
Limits to Medicine
by Ivan Illich • 1974
Modern medicine has itself become an epidemic. The cure is not more treatment but less.
4.04
612
🩺 Medical Criticism💊 Medicalization🏗️ Social Construction Of Illness
Limits to Medicine Summary
Limits to Medicine 89%
Modern medicine has itself become an epidemic. The cure is not more treatment but less.
by Ivan Illich 1974
4.04
612 ratings
🩺 Medical Criticism💊 Medicalization🏗️ Social Construction Of Illness
The Age of Diagnosis
by Suzanne O'Sullivan • 2025
We pursue diagnosis for certainty and safety. The pursuit itself is making us sick.
4.11
3k+
🩺 Medical Overdiagnosis📈 Diagnostic Expansion🧠 Expectation Effects
The Age of Diagnosis Summary
The Age of Diagnosis 89%
We pursue diagnosis for certainty and safety. The pursuit itself is making us sick.
by Suzanne O'Sullivan 2025
4.11
3k+ ratings
🩺 Medical Overdiagnosis📈 Diagnostic Expansion🧠 Expectation Effects
Diagnosis
by Lisa Sanders • 2019
High-tech scans get the glory, but the real diagnostic work starts with a doctor who listens.
4.00
4k+
🧩 Medical Mysteries🦠 Rare Diseases🧠 Cognitive Biases
Diagnosis Summary
Diagnosis 89%
High-tech scans get the glory, but the real diagnostic work starts with a doctor who listens.
by Lisa Sanders 2019
4.00
4k+ ratings
🧩 Medical Mysteries🦠 Rare Diseases🧠 Cognitive Biases
Patient Zero
by Lydia Kang • 2021
The hunt for patient zero almost always finds a scapegoat, not a cause.
4.13
3k+
🏥 Medical History🌍 Disease Ecology🔍 Outbreak Investigation
Patient Zero Summary
Patient Zero 89%
The hunt for patient zero almost always finds a scapegoat, not a cause.
by Lydia Kang 2021
4.13
3k+ ratings
🏥 Medical History🌍 Disease Ecology🔍 Outbreak Investigation
The Birth of the Clinic
by Michel Foucault • 1963
Modern medicine owes less to observation than to a new way of looking at the dead.
3.94
3k+
🏥 History Of Medicine🔬 Medical Epistemology🏛️ Biopolitics
The Birth of the Clinic Summary
The Birth of the Clinic 89%
Modern medicine owes less to observation than to a new way of looking at the dead.
by Michel Foucault 1963
3.94
3k+ ratings
🏥 History Of Medicine🔬 Medical Epistemology🏛️ Biopolitics
The Laws of Medicine
by Siddhartha Mukherjee • 2015
Why a strong hunch beats a weak test, and other laws of a science built on uncertainty.
4.07
5k+
🧮 Bayesian Reasoning🧠 Clinical Reasoning❓ Medical Uncertainty
The Laws of Medicine Summary
The Laws of Medicine 89%
Why a strong hunch beats a weak test, and other laws of a science built on uncertainty.
by Siddhartha Mukherjee 2015
4.07
5k+ ratings
🧮 Bayesian Reasoning🧠 Clinical Reasoning❓ Medical Uncertainty
In the Land of Pain
by Alphonse Daudet • 1929
Pain resists words. A dying novelist splits himself: half suffers, the other half watches.
3.68
597
🏥 Chronic Illness✍️ Literary Memoir📖 Illness Narrative
In the Land of Pain Summary
In the Land of Pain 89%
Pain resists words. A dying novelist splits himself: half suffers, the other half watches.
by Alphonse Daudet 1929
3.68
597 ratings
🏥 Chronic Illness✍️ Literary Memoir📖 Illness Narrative
The Emperor of All Maladies
by Siddhartha Mukherjee • 2010
Cancer's biography: a killer that turns out to be a warped reflection of our own biology.
4.34
116k+
📜 Medical History🔬 Cancer Biology📖 Disease Biography
The Emperor of All Maladies Summary
The Emperor of All Maladies 89%
Cancer's biography: a killer that turns out to be a warped reflection of our own biology.
by Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
4.34
116k+ ratings
📜 Medical History🔬 Cancer Biology📖 Disease Biography
The Family Gene
by Joselin Linder • 2017
One family's mystery illness made them swell, choke. The gene revealed the liver pumps blood too.
4.05
1k+
🧬 Genetic Disorders🦠 Rare Diseases🔍 Medical Mysteries
The Family Gene Summary
The Family Gene 88%
One family's mystery illness made them swell, choke. The gene revealed the liver pumps blood too.
by Joselin Linder 2017
4.05
1k+ ratings
🧬 Genetic Disorders🦠 Rare Diseases🔍 Medical Mysteries
Everything in Its Place
by Oliver Sacks • 2019
Oliver Sacks's final essays: what broken brains reveal about music, identity, and being human.
4.14
3k+
🧠 Neurology🩺 Medical Humanities📖 Narrative Medicine
Everything in Its Place Summary
Everything in Its Place 88%
Oliver Sacks's final essays: what broken brains reveal about music, identity, and being human.
by Oliver Sacks 2019
4.14
3k+ ratings
🧠 Neurology🩺 Medical Humanities📖 Narrative Medicine
What Is Madness?
by Darian Leader • 2011
Delusions are self-repair, not error, and madness is a quiet spectrum, not a visible breakdown.
4.14
531
🛋️ Lacanian Psychoanalysis🌪️ Psychosis💭 Delusion
What Is Madness? Summary
What Is Madness? 88%
Delusions are self-repair, not error, and madness is a quiet spectrum, not a visible breakdown.
by Darian Leader 2011
4.14
531 ratings
🛋️ Lacanian Psychoanalysis🌪️ Psychosis💭 Delusion
Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo
by Ian Harris • 2016
Many common surgeries work no better than a fake incision: a surgeon reveals the evidence.
4.16
196
🔬 Evidence-Based Medicine⚠️ Medical Overtreatment💊 Placebo Studies
Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo Summary
Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo 88%
Many common surgeries work no better than a fake incision: a surgeon reveals the evidence.
by Ian Harris 2016
4.16
196 ratings
🔬 Evidence-Based Medicine⚠️ Medical Overtreatment💊 Placebo Studies
Complications
by Atul Gawande • 2002
Guesswork, uncertainty, and routine error: a surgeon's casebook from inside the operating room.
4.28
53k+
🏥 Surgical Memoir⚖️ Medical Ethics📖 Narrative Medicine
Complications Summary
Complications 88%
Guesswork, uncertainty, and routine error: a surgeon's casebook from inside the operating room.
by Atul Gawande 2002
4.28
53k+ ratings
🏥 Surgical Memoir⚖️ Medical Ethics📖 Narrative Medicine
DSM-5 Insanely Simplified
by Steven Buser M.D • 2015
Mental health is a continuum, not a checkbox: eight spectrums that map the full range.
3.95
236
🧠 Psychiatric Diagnosis📋 Diagnostic Classification🌈 Spectrum Thinking
DSM-5 Insanely Simplified Summary
DSM-5 Insanely Simplified 88%
Mental health is a continuum, not a checkbox: eight spectrums that map the full range.
by Steven Buser M.D 2015
3.95
236 ratings
🧠 Psychiatric Diagnosis📋 Diagnostic Classification🌈 Spectrum Thinking
Doctored
by Sandeep Jauhar • 2014
Fee-for-service broke the healers. A cardiologist's personal account of what American medicine lost.
3.61
1k+
🇺🇸 American Healthcare🩺 Medical Memoir😞 Physician Burnout
Doctored Summary
Doctored 88%
Fee-for-service broke the healers. A cardiologist's personal account of what American medicine lost.
by Sandeep Jauhar 2014
3.61
1k+ ratings
🇺🇸 American Healthcare🩺 Medical Memoir😞 Physician Burnout
No More Normal
by Alastair Santhouse • 2025
Four times more mental disorders than 70 years ago. A psychiatrist asks: have we lost normal?
4.04
91
🧠 Psychiatric Overreach📈 Diagnostic Inflation🏥 Medicalizing Distress
No More Normal Summary
No More Normal 88%
Four times more mental disorders than 70 years ago. A psychiatrist asks: have we lost normal?
by Alastair Santhouse 2025
4.04
91 ratings
🧠 Psychiatric Overreach📈 Diagnostic Inflation🏥 Medicalizing Distress
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
by Oliver Sacks • 1985
When brains break, the self bends but doesn't vanish: clinical tales of what persists.
4.05
249k+
🩺 Narrative Medicine🧠 Popular Neuroscience🤝 Clinical Empathy
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales Summary
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales 88%
When brains break, the self bends but doesn't vanish: clinical tales of what persists.
by Oliver Sacks 1985
4.05
249k+ ratings
🩺 Narrative Medicine🧠 Popular Neuroscience🤝 Clinical Empathy
Ending Medical Reversal
by Vinayak K. Prasad • 2015
Why standard medical treatments from stents to hormone therapy keep getting overturned.
4.36
407
📊 Evidence-Based Medicine🧪 Clinical Trials🔍 Overdiagnosis
Ending Medical Reversal Summary
Ending Medical Reversal 88%
Why standard medical treatments from stents to hormone therapy keep getting overturned.
by Vinayak K. Prasad 2015
4.36
407 ratings
📊 Evidence-Based Medicine🧪 Clinical Trials🔍 Overdiagnosis
Epidemiology
by Rodolfo Saracci • 2010
The science that saved cities from cholera and proved tobacco kills, packed into 100 pages.
3.37
351
🏥 Public Health🗺️ Disease Patterns🔗 Causal Inference
Epidemiology Summary
Epidemiology 88%
The science that saved cities from cholera and proved tobacco kills, packed into 100 pages.
by Rodolfo Saracci 2010
3.37
351 ratings
🏥 Public Health🗺️ Disease Patterns🔗 Causal Inference
The Mind Electric
by Pria Anand • 2025
When the brain breaks, it fills the gaps with stories. A neurologist shows medicine does the same.
3.81
768
🧠 Neurological Disorders📖 Narrative Medicine🏛️ History Of Medicine
The Mind Electric Summary
The Mind Electric 88%
When the brain breaks, it fills the gaps with stories. A neurologist shows medicine does the same.
by Pria Anand 2025
3.81
768 ratings
🧠 Neurological Disorders📖 Narrative Medicine🏛️ History Of Medicine
Booster Shots
by Adam Ratner • 2025
Measles erases immune memory. It also erases societal memory, and that amnesia is more dangerous.
4.33
577
🏥 Public Health🦠 Infectious Disease📊 Epidemiology
Booster Shots Summary
Booster Shots 88%
Measles erases immune memory. It also erases societal memory, and that amnesia is more dangerous.
by Adam Ratner 2025
4.33
577 ratings
🏥 Public Health🦠 Infectious Disease📊 Epidemiology
Gray's Anatomy
by Henry Gray • 1858
Before modern imaging, the book that taught the world human anatomy, structure by structure.
4.31
4k+
🦴 Human Anatomy📖 Anatomical Reference📝 Descriptive Anatomy
Gray's Anatomy Summary
Gray's Anatomy 88%
Before modern imaging, the book that taught the world human anatomy, structure by structure.
by Henry Gray 1858
4.31
4k+ ratings
🦴 Human Anatomy📖 Anatomical Reference📝 Descriptive Anatomy
The Meaning of Madness
by Neel Burton • 2008
Mental disorders have hidden purposes: windows into meaning, creativity, and transformation.
3.97
275
💊 Critical Psychiatry🌌 Existential Psychology🧬 Evolutionary Psychology
The Meaning of Madness Summary
The Meaning of Madness 88%
Mental disorders have hidden purposes: windows into meaning, creativity, and transformation.
by Neel Burton 2008
3.97
275 ratings
💊 Critical Psychiatry🌌 Existential Psychology🧬 Evolutionary Psychology
Quarantine Life from Cholera to COVID-19
by Kari Nixon • 2021
Quarantine backfires without consent. History's real defenses: distancing and community.
3.85
169
🦠 Pandemic History🏥 History Of Medicine⚖️ Public Health Ethics
Quarantine Life from Cholera to COVID-19 Summary
Quarantine Life from Cholera to COVID-19 88%
Quarantine backfires without consent. History's real defenses: distancing and community.
by Kari Nixon 2021
3.85
169 ratings
🦠 Pandemic History🏥 History Of Medicine⚖️ Public Health Ethics
Desperate Remedies
by Andrew Scull • 2022
For two centuries, psychiatry's cures have caused more harm than the illnesses they target.
4.09
448
🏥 History Of Psychiatry🏛️ Institutional Critique💉 Medical Hubris
Desperate Remedies Summary
Desperate Remedies 88%
For two centuries, psychiatry's cures have caused more harm than the illnesses they target.
by Andrew Scull 2022
4.09
448 ratings
🏥 History Of Psychiatry🏛️ Institutional Critique💉 Medical Hubris
Mosquito
by Andrew Spielman • 2001
Smaller than a fingernail, deadlier than all wars combined: the insect that decided empires.
3.89
436
🦠 Infectious Disease🌍 Disease Ecology🪲 Insect Science
Mosquito Summary
Mosquito 88%
Smaller than a fingernail, deadlier than all wars combined: the insect that decided empires.
by Andrew Spielman 2001
3.89
436 ratings
🦠 Infectious Disease🌍 Disease Ecology🪲 Insect Science
Coping with Psoriasis
by David L. Cram • 2000
The dermatologist's playbook for psoriasis: right doctor, right treatment, stop hiding.
3.60
5
🩹 Chronic Skin Conditions🦠 Autoimmune Disorders🤝 Doctor Patient Partnership
Coping with Psoriasis Summary
Coping with Psoriasis 88%
The dermatologist's playbook for psoriasis: right doctor, right treatment, stop hiding.
by David L. Cram 2000
3.60
5 ratings
🩹 Chronic Skin Conditions🦠 Autoimmune Disorders🤝 Doctor Patient Partnership
How Doctors Think
by Jerome Groopman • 2007
Why doctors misdiagnose, and the simple questions that can stop a cognitive error cold.
3.93
13k+
🧠 Cognitive Biases⚠️ Medical Error🩺 Doctor Patient Relationship
How Doctors Think Summary
How Doctors Think 88%
Why doctors misdiagnose, and the simple questions that can stop a cognitive error cold.
by Jerome Groopman 2007
3.93
13k+ ratings
🧠 Cognitive Biases⚠️ Medical Error🩺 Doctor Patient Relationship
Strangers to Ourselves
by Rachel Aviv • 2022
A diagnosis does not just name your illness. It shapes it. Five lives inside psychiatry.
4.10
15k+
🏷️ Psychiatric Diagnosis🌍 Cultural Psychiatry📖 Medical Narratives
Strangers to Ourselves Summary
Strangers to Ourselves 88%
A diagnosis does not just name your illness. It shapes it. Five lives inside psychiatry.
by Rachel Aviv 2022
4.10
15k+ ratings
🏷️ Psychiatric Diagnosis🌍 Cultural Psychiatry📖 Medical Narratives
Saving Normal
by Allen Frances • 2013
The psychiatrist who chaired the DSM-IV explains why normal human suffering now earns a diagnosis.
3.85
2k+
🏥 Psychiatric Overdiagnosis💊 Pharmaceutical Industry🩺 Medicalization Critique
Saving Normal Summary
Saving Normal 88%
The psychiatrist who chaired the DSM-IV explains why normal human suffering now earns a diagnosis.
by Allen Frances 2013
3.85
2k+ ratings
🏥 Psychiatric Overdiagnosis💊 Pharmaceutical Industry🩺 Medicalization Critique
The Great Prostate Hoax
by Richard J. Ablin • 2014
The PSA test generates billions and doesn't save lives. Its discoverer explains how that happened.
4.49
115
🩺 Medical Overdiagnosis🔬 Cancer Screening📊 Evidence-Based Medicine
The Great Prostate Hoax Summary
The Great Prostate Hoax 88%
The PSA test generates billions and doesn't save lives. Its discoverer explains how that happened.
by Richard J. Ablin 2014
4.49
115 ratings
🩺 Medical Overdiagnosis🔬 Cancer Screening📊 Evidence-Based Medicine
Facing the Unseen
by Damon Tweedy • 2024
Psychiatry is exiled from mainstream medicine by design. A doctor's memoir of the human cost.
4.23
192
🩺 Medical Education😵 Physician Burnout🧠 Mind-Body Dualism
Facing the Unseen Summary
Facing the Unseen 88%
Psychiatry is exiled from mainstream medicine by design. A doctor's memoir of the human cost.
by Damon Tweedy 2024
4.23
192 ratings
🩺 Medical Education😵 Physician Burnout🧠 Mind-Body Dualism
Avicenna's Medicine
by Avicenna • 1025
Four humors, nine temperaments: the medieval system returning to integrative clinics today.
4.29
276
🧪 Humoral Medicine🕌 Islamic Medicine🌡️ Temperament Types
Avicenna's Medicine Summary
Avicenna's Medicine 88%
Four humors, nine temperaments: the medieval system returning to integrative clinics today.
by Avicenna 1025
4.29
276 ratings
🧪 Humoral Medicine🕌 Islamic Medicine🌡️ Temperament Types
Ecg Interpretation Made Incredibly Easy
by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins • 1997
A protocol that separates the benign squiggle from the one that needs a crash cart.
4.19
156
⚡ Electrocardiography🫀 Cardiology📊 Arrhythmia Diagnosis
Ecg Interpretation Made Incredibly Easy Summary
Ecg Interpretation Made Incredibly Easy 88%
A protocol that separates the benign squiggle from the one that needs a crash cart.
by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 1997
4.19
156 ratings
⚡ Electrocardiography🫀 Cardiology📊 Arrhythmia Diagnosis
Destructive Trends in Mental Health
by Rogers H. Wright • 2005
Therapy now invents disorders, buries science, and rewards victimhood. Patients pay the price.
3.95
21
🧠 Clinical Psychology🏷️ Diagnostic Overreach⚖️ Psychology Ethics
Destructive Trends in Mental Health Summary
Destructive Trends in Mental Health 88%
Therapy now invents disorders, buries science, and rewards victimhood. Patients pay the price.
by Rogers H. Wright 2005
3.95
21 ratings
🧠 Clinical Psychology🏷️ Diagnostic Overreach⚖️ Psychology Ethics
Awakenings
by Oliver Sacks • 1973
Patients frozen for decades woke on a single drug. The real trial was staying awake.
4.09
14k+
🔬 Clinical Neurology🫀 Humanistic Medicine🧠 Neuroplasticity
Awakenings Summary
Awakenings 88%
Patients frozen for decades woke on a single drug. The real trial was staying awake.
by Oliver Sacks 1973
4.09
14k+ ratings
🔬 Clinical Neurology🫀 Humanistic Medicine🧠 Neuroplasticity
Every Deep-Drawn Breath
by Wes Ely • 2021
ICUs save the body but break the mind. A doctor's proof that survival is not the whole story.
4.35
2k+
🫁 Critical Care🤝 Patient-Centered Care💛 Humanistic Medicine
Every Deep-Drawn Breath Summary
Every Deep-Drawn Breath 88%
ICUs save the body but break the mind. A doctor's proof that survival is not the whole story.
by Wes Ely 2021
4.35
2k+ ratings
🫁 Critical Care🤝 Patient-Centered Care💛 Humanistic Medicine
Crazy Like Us
by Ethan Watters • 2009
Exporting American psychiatric definitions changes mental illness from the inside, not just what doctors call it.
4.10
4k+
🩺 Medical Anthropology🌍 Global Mental Health🗺️ Culture-Bound Syndromes
Crazy Like Us Summary
Crazy Like Us 88%
Exporting American psychiatric definitions changes mental illness from the inside, not just what doctors call it.
by Ethan Watters 2009
4.10
4k+ ratings
🩺 Medical Anthropology🌍 Global Mental Health🗺️ Culture-Bound Syndromes
Losing Our Minds
by Lucy Foulkes • 2022
Talk about mental health surged. Understanding didn't, so ordinary suffering now gets a diagnosis.
4.07
786
🩺 Medicalization Of Distress🧒 Adolescent Mental Health📈 Diagnostic Inflation
Losing Our Minds Summary
Losing Our Minds 88%
Talk about mental health surged. Understanding didn't, so ordinary suffering now gets a diagnosis.
by Lucy Foulkes 2022
4.07
786 ratings
🩺 Medicalization Of Distress🧒 Adolescent Mental Health📈 Diagnostic Inflation
COVID-19
by Michael Mosley • 2020
Why this virus spreads before symptoms, and the science-backed ways to strengthen your defenses.
3.91
224
🦠 Virology🏥 Public Health🩺 Infectious Disease
COVID-19 Summary
COVID-19 88%
Why this virus spreads before symptoms, and the science-backed ways to strengthen your defenses.
by Michael Mosley 2020
3.91
224 ratings
🦠 Virology🏥 Public Health🩺 Infectious Disease
Netter's Concise Orthopaedic Anatomy
by Jon C. Thompson • 2001
The orthopaedic anatomy you need for the clinic and the boards, in Netter's signature clarity.
4.53
117
🩻 Clinical Anatomy🏥 Orthopaedic Surgery🔪 Surgical Anatomy
Netter's Concise Orthopaedic Anatomy Summary
Netter's Concise Orthopaedic Anatomy 88%
The orthopaedic anatomy you need for the clinic and the boards, in Netter's signature clarity.
by Jon C. Thompson 2001
4.53
117 ratings
🩻 Clinical Anatomy🏥 Orthopaedic Surgery🔪 Surgical Anatomy
The Long Covid Survival Guide
by Fiona Lowenstein • 2022
A patient-built playbook for surviving Long COVID when doctors dismiss you and rest isn't enough.
4.30
156
🩺 Chronic Illness🫁 Long Covid🚫 Medical Gaslighting
The Long Covid Survival Guide Summary
The Long Covid Survival Guide 88%
A patient-built playbook for surviving Long COVID when doctors dismiss you and rest isn't enough.
by Fiona Lowenstein 2022
4.30
156 ratings
🩺 Chronic Illness🫁 Long Covid🚫 Medical Gaslighting
Everything Is Tuberculosis
by John Green • 2025
Tuberculosis is curable. Its persistence reveals not biology but a record of whose lives are valued.
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279k+
🦠 Infectious Disease🏥 History Of Medicine🌍 Global Health Inequity
Everything Is Tuberculosis Summary
Everything Is Tuberculosis 88%
Tuberculosis is curable. Its persistence reveals not biology but a record of whose lives are valued.
by John Green 2025
4.32
279k+ ratings
🦠 Infectious Disease🏥 History Of Medicine🌍 Global Health Inequity
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons
by Sam Kean • 2014
History's most bizarre brain traumas, and what each one revealed about your mind.
4.25
14k+
🧠 Neuroscience📜 History Of Science🏥 Medical History
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons Summary
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons 88%
History's most bizarre brain traumas, and what each one revealed about your mind.
by Sam Kean 2014
4.25
14k+ ratings
🧠 Neuroscience📜 History Of Science🏥 Medical History
How to Read a Paper
by Trisha Greenhalgh • 1999
From p-values to meta-analyses: critical skills to judge a study, no statistics degree required.
4.02
378
🩺 Evidence-Based Medicine🔎 Critical Appraisal🧪 Study Design
How to Read a Paper Summary
How to Read a Paper 88%
From p-values to meta-analyses: critical skills to judge a study, no statistics degree required.
by Trisha Greenhalgh 1999
4.02
378 ratings
🩺 Evidence-Based Medicine🔎 Critical Appraisal🧪 Study Design
Blind Spots
by Marty Makary • 2024
Peanut avoidance caused an epidemic. Hormone therapy wrongly abandoned. The errors follow a pattern.
4.34
5k+
🔒 Medical Dogma🔄 Medical Reversals🧠 Cognitive Biases
Blind Spots Summary
Blind Spots 88%
Peanut avoidance caused an epidemic. Hormone therapy wrongly abandoned. The errors follow a pattern.
by Marty Makary 2024
4.34
5k+ ratings
🔒 Medical Dogma🔄 Medical Reversals🧠 Cognitive Biases
This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health
by Nathan Filer • 2019
A nurse turned journalist traces psychosis to its real roots: poverty, trauma, and racism.
4.28
3k+
🔍 Psychiatric Critique💔 Trauma And Psychosis🏘️ Social Determinants
This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health Summary
This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health 88%
A nurse turned journalist traces psychosis to its real roots: poverty, trauma, and racism.
by Nathan Filer 2019
4.28
3k+ ratings
🔍 Psychiatric Critique💔 Trauma And Psychosis🏘️ Social Determinants
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