Reading STEM 2022 - hosted by corvidaeus

A book about medicine or health science
This could be medical history, pharmacology, epidemiology, human physiology and anatomy, genetics, etc
All books added
Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery by Ira Rutkow

Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery

Ira Rutkow

432 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction health history science emotional informative mysterious medium-paced
A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them by Neil Bradbury

A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them

Neil Bradbury

7 hours, 15 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction science true crime dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Gene: An Intimate History

Siddhartha Mukherjee

608 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

Caitlin Doughty

272 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction memoir funny informative reflective medium-paced
Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History by Vidya Krishnan

Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History

Vidya Krishnan

320 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction health history science challenging emotional informative medium-paced
Spoon-Fed: Why Almost Everything We've Been Told About Food is Wrong by Tim Spector

Spoon-Fed: Why Almost Everything We've Been Told About Food is Wrong

Tim Spector

241 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction food and drink health informative medium-paced
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

Robin Wall Kimmerer

390 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction essays nature science informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism by Jen Gunter

The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism

Jen Gunter

370 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction feminism health informative inspiring medium-paced
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

Steven Johnson

299 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
¡Tómate un respiro! Mindfulness: El arte de mantener la calma en medio de la tempestad by Mario Alonso Puig

¡Tómate un respiro! Mindfulness: El arte de mantener la calma en medio de la tempestad

Mario Alonso Puig

7 hours, 29 minutes • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction self help