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Fatal Conveniences Summary
Fatal Conveniences
The Toxic Products and Harmful Habits That Are Making You Sick―and the Simple Changes That Will Save Your Health
by Darin Olien 2023 304 pages
3.75
1k+ ratings
Health
Science
Environment
Lifespan Summary
Lifespan
Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To
by David A. Sinclair 2019 432 pages
4.14
24k+ ratings
Science
Health
Biology
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
5k+ ratings
Medicine
Memoir
Medical
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
1k+ ratings
Memoir
Science
Medical
Alpha Lipoic Acid Breakthrough Summary
Alpha Lipoic Acid Breakthrough
The Superb Antioxidant That May Slow Aging, Repair Liver Damage, and Reduce the Risk of Cancer, Heart Disease, and Diabetes
by Burt Berkson 1998 192 pages
4.12
50+ ratings
Medicine
Health
The Health Gap Summary
The Health Gap
The Challenge of an Unequal World
by Michael G. Marmot 2015 400 pages
4.13
1k+ ratings
Medicine
Health
Health Care
Rethinking Diabetes Summary
Rethinking Diabetes
What Science Reveals About Diet, Insulin, and Successful Treatments
by Gary Taubes 2024 752 pages
4.20
100+ ratings
Health
Science
Medicine
The Great Pain Deception Summary
The Great Pain Deception
Faulty Medical Advice Is Making Us Worse
by Steven Ray Ozanich 2011 399 pages
4.34
100+ ratings
Health
Psychology
Self Help
The Creation of Health Summary
The Creation of Health
The Emotional, Psychological, and Spiritual Responses That Promote Health and Healing
by Caroline Myss 1988 416 pages
4.17
100+ ratings
Health
Spirituality
Self Help
Quantum Healing Summary
Quantum Healing
Exploring the Frontiers of Mind Body Medicine
by Deepak Chopra 1989 278 pages
4.15
6k+ ratings
Health
Spirituality
Self Help
Why We Die Summary
Why We Die
The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
by Venki Ramakrishnan 2024 320 pages
4.03
1k+ ratings
Science
Health
Biology
Magic Pill Summary
Magic Pill
The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs
by Johann Hari 2024 320 pages
4.28
5k+ ratings
Health
Science
Psychology
Dark Calories Summary
Dark Calories
How Vegetable Oils Destroy Our Health and How We Can Get It Back
by Cate Shanahan 2024 356 pages
4.45
100+ ratings
Health
Nutrition
Food
Lies I Taught in Medical School Summary
Lies I Taught in Medical School
How Conventional Medicine Is Making You Sicker and What You Can Do to Save Your Own Life
by Robert Lufkin 2024 352 pages
3.98
500+ ratings
Health
Science
Medical
The Body Summary
The Body
A Guide for Occupants
by Bill Bryson 2019 450 pages
4.32
91k+ ratings
Science
Health
Biology
Motivational Interviewing in Health Care Summary
Motivational Interviewing in Health Care
Helping Patients Change Behavior
by Stephen Rollnick 2007 210 pages
4.08
500+ ratings
Psychology
Health
Medicine
Building Motivational Interviewing Skills Summary
Building Motivational Interviewing Skills
A Practitioner Workbook
by David B. Rosengren 2009 335 pages
4.13
100+ ratings
Psychology
Social Work
Textbooks
The Emperor of All Maladies Summary
The Emperor of All Maladies
A Biography of Cancer
by Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010 571 pages
4.34
100k+ ratings
Science
History
Medicine
Nothing to Fear Summary
Nothing to Fear
Demystifying Death to Live More Fully
by Julie McFadden 2024 240 pages
4.44
1k+ ratings
Death
Health
Psychology
Smoke Signals Summary
Smoke Signals
A Social History of Marijuana - Medical, Recreational and Scientific
by Martin A. Lee 2012 528 pages
4.29
500+ ratings
History
Science
Politics
Review of Medical Microbiology and Immunology (Medical Microbiology & Immunology Summary
Review of Medical Microbiology and Immunology (Medical Microbiology & Immunology
by Warren Levinson 2006 580 pages
4.11
100+ ratings
Medicine
Science
Reference
The Ultimate Survival Medicine Guide Summary
The Ultimate Survival Medicine Guide
Emergency Preparedness for ANY Disaster
by Joseph Alton 2015 402 pages
4.13
100+ ratings
Survival
Medicine
Health
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
by Oliver Sacks 1985 243 pages
4.05
200k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Medicine
The Cholesterol Myths Summary
The Cholesterol Myths
Exposing the Fallacy That Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease
by Uffe Ravnskov 2000 320 pages
4.29
100+ ratings
Health
Nutrition
Science
Eat Like a Human Summary
Eat Like a Human
Nourishing Foods and Ancient Ways of Cooking to Revolutionize Your Health
by Bill Schindler 2021 304 pages
3.83
100+ ratings
Health
Food
Nutrition
Nutrient Power Summary
Nutrient Power
Heal Your Biochemistry and Heal Your Brain
by William J. Walsh 2012 224 pages
4.08
500+ ratings
Health
Nutrition
Science
The Rules of Contagion Summary
The Rules of Contagion
Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop
by Adam Kucharski 2020 352 pages
3.86
2k+ ratings
Science
Health
Medicine
Bottle of Lies Summary
Bottle of Lies
The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom
by Katherine Eban 2019 512 pages
4.42
6k+ ratings
Science
Health
Medicine
The Making of You Summary
The Making of You
A Journey from Cell to Human
by Katharina Vestre 2018 141 pages
4.12
500+ ratings
Science
Parenting
Biology
The Laws of Medicine Summary
The Laws of Medicine
Field Notes from an Uncertain Science
by Siddhartha Mukherjee 2015 70 pages
4.06
4k+ ratings
Medicine
Science
Medical
How to Prevent the Next Pandemic Summary
How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
by Bill Gates 2022 304 pages
3.75
2k+ ratings
Science
Health
Politics
Somatics Summary
Somatics
Reawakening The Mind's Control Of Movement, Flexibility, And Health
by Thomas Hanna 1988 176 pages
4.17
500+ ratings
Health
Psychology
Bodies
The Song of the Cell Summary
The Song of the Cell
An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
by Siddhartha Mukherjee 2022 473 pages
4.28
13k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Medicine
Psychedelics Summary
Psychedelics
The revolutionary drugs that could change your life – a guide from the expert
by David J. Nutt 2023 307 pages
4.41
100+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Health
The Scalpel and the Silver Bear Summary
The Scalpel and the Silver Bear
The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing
by Lori Arviso Alvord 1999 205 pages
4.01
1k+ ratings
Medicine
Memoir
Medical
The Body Electric Summary
The Body Electric
Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life
by Robert O. Becker 1985 368 pages
4.23
500+ ratings
Science
Health
Biology
The Clot Thickens Summary
The Clot Thickens
by Malcolm Kendrick 2021 334 pages
4.67
500+ ratings
Health
Science
Nutrition
Aging Well Summary
Aging Well
Surprising Guideposts to a Happier Life from the Landmark Harvard Study of Adult Development
by George E. Vaillant 2002 384 pages
3.92
500+ ratings
Psychology
Health
Self Help
Blind Spots Summary
Blind Spots
When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health
by Marty Makary 2024 288 pages
4.48
1k+ ratings
Health
Medicine
Science
Molecular Biology of the Cell Summary
Molecular Biology of the Cell
by Bruce Alberts 1983 1616 pages
4.36
2k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Textbooks
Textbook of Medical Physiology Summary
Textbook of Medical Physiology
by Arthur C. Guyton 1969 1104 pages
4.25
2k+ ratings
Medicine
Medical
Science
Gray's Anatomy Summary
Gray's Anatomy
by Henry Gray 1858 1257 pages
4.31
3k+ ratings
Reference
Science
Medicine
The Epigenetics Revolution Summary
The Epigenetics Revolution
by Nessa Carey 2011 320 pages
4.06
5k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Genetics
The Lives of a Cell Summary
The Lives of a Cell
Notes of a Biology Watcher
by Lewis Thomas 1974 160 pages
4.14
10k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Essays
This is Going to Hurt Summary
This is Going to Hurt
Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
by Adam Kay 2017 285 pages
4.40
300k+ ratings
Memoir
Medicine
Biography
The Cancer Code Summary
The Cancer Code
A Revolutionary New Understanding of a Medical Mystery
by Jason Fung 2020 288 pages
4.46
2k+ ratings
Health
Science
Medicine
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons Summary
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons
The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
by Sam Kean 2014 416 pages
4.26
13k+ ratings
Science
History
Psychology
My Father's Brain Summary
My Father's Brain
Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's
by Sandeep Jauhar 2023 256 pages
4.13
1k+ ratings
Memoir
Health
Science
The 36-Hour Day Summary
The 36-Hour Day
A Family Guide to Caring for People with Alzheimer Disease, Other Dementias, and Memory Loss in Later Life
by Nancy L. Mace 1981 324 pages
4.29
4k+ ratings
Health
Self Help
Reference
When the Air Hits Your Brain Summary
When the Air Hits Your Brain
Tales of Neurosurgery
by Frank T. Vertosick Jr. 1996 288 pages
4.34
11k+ ratings
Medicine
Medical
Science
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