 | Doctors: The Biography of Medicine by Sherwin B. Nuland
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $1.60 A little dense but a very well-written and engaging history of the people behind the discoveries that created modern western medicine.
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 | Doctors: The Illustrated History of Medical Pioneers by Sherwin B. Nuland
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $14.99 Nearly the same as the above but with a lot of nice illustrations.
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 | A HISTORY OF MEDICINE. WITH 72 PLATES. by DOUGLAS. GUTHRIE
Buy used from: $19.03 A dry, academic but very complete history of medicine. Nice if you can get ahold of it!
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 | Partners of the Heart: Vivien Thomas and His Work with Alfred Blalock: An Autobiography by Vivien T. Thomas
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $24.50 An underrated contribution by Vivian Thomas who describes his pioneering work in cardiac surgery and the racial barriers that prevented even greater contributions.
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 | Something the Lord Made
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $6.94 A great deramatization of the same events dicussed in "Partners of the Heart."
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 | The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries) by Sherwin B. Nuland
Buy new: $9.86 / Used from: $4.86 A description of a medical breakthrough that was ignored due to the difficult personality of the discoverer and inertia of his colleagues. Scary.
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 | Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and the Haunted Men Who Made It by J.m. Fenster
Buy used from: $4.94 A gripping historical account of America's greatest contribution of medical practice, surgical anesthesia, and the horrifying (and justly deserved?) ends of nearly everyone involved in the discovery.
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 | The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery by Wendy Moore
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.22 Biography of John Hunter, the surgeon who brought scientific validity and experimentation to surgery. A great description of an extereme personality driven to understand everything about nature and the lengths (body snatching is one of the more mundane) he would go to to get the specimens he wanted.
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