Top 20 Best-Selling Books About Medicine | Academic Best Sellers

The opioid crisis, Flint's contaminated water, the history of vaccines, and bioethics top the list of best-selling academic titles on health and medicine, as compiled by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

The opioid crisis, Flint's contaminated water, the history of vaccines, and bioethics top the list of best-selling academic titles on health and medicine, as compiled by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO. 

1. Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and The Drug Company That Addicted America
Macy, Beth
Little, Brown. 2018. ISBN 9780316551243. $28.

2. Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
Clark, Anna
Metropolitan Henry Holt. 2018. ISBN 9781250125149. $30.

3. Bad Advice: Or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists Aren't Your Best Source of Health Information
Offit, Paul A.
Columbia University Press. 2018. ISBN 9780231186988. $24.95.

4. Opioid Crisis: A Reference Handbook
Newton, David E.
ABC-CLIO. 2018. ISBN 9781440864353. $60.

5. Between Hope and Fear: A History of Vaccines and Human Immunity
Kinch, Michael S.
Pegasus Books. 2018. ISBN 9781681777511. $27.95

6. Caring For Equality: A History of African American Health and Healthcare
Mcbride, David
Rowman & Littlefield. 2018. ISBN 9781442260597. $38.

7. Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs To Know
Newby, P.K.
Oxford University Press. 2018. ISBN 9780190846640. $74.

8. Plagues and the Paradox Of Progress: Why the World Is Getting Healthier in Worrisome Ways
Bollyky, Thomas J.
MIT Press. 2018. ISBN 9780262038454. $27.95.

9. Racial Divide In American Medicine: Black Physicians and the Struggle for Justice in Health Care
Deshazo, Richard D.
University Press Of Mississippi. 2018. ISBN 9781496817686. $40.

10. Transgender Health Issues
Boslaugh, Sarah
Greenwood. 2018. ISBN 9781440858871. $40.

11. Lyme: The First Epidemic of Climate Change
Pfeiffer, Mary Beth
Island Press. 2018. ISBN 9781610918442. $28.

12. Inequalities of Aging: Paradoxes of Independence in American Home Care
Buch, Elana D.
New York University Press. 2018. ISBN 9781479810734. $89.

13. STDs In the United States: A Reference Handbook
Newton, David E.
ABC-CLIO. 2018. ISBN 9781440858574. $60.

14. Polio: The Odyssey of Eradication
Abraham, Thomas
Hurst & Company. 2018. ISBN 9781849049566. $29.95.

15. Formerly Known as Food: How the Industrial Food System is Changing Our Minds, Bodies, and Culture
Lawless, Kristin
St. Martin's Press. 2018. ISBN 9781250078315. $26.99.

16. Big Data, Health Law, and Bioethics
Cohen, I. Glenn
Cambridge University Press. 2018. ISBN 9781107193659. $165.

17. Health Care In Crisis: Hospitals, Nurses, and the Consequences of Policy Change
Morris, Theresa
New York University Press. 2018. ISBN 9781479813520. $89.

18. Cesarean Section: An American History of Risk, Technology, and Consequence
Wolf, Jacqueline H.
Johns Hopkins University Press. 2018. ISBN 9781421425528. $49.95.

19. Rest Uneasy: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in Twentieth-Century America
Cowgill, Brittany
Rutgers University Press. 2018. ISBN 9780813588209. $99.95.

20. Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History
Arnold, Catharine
St. Martin's Press. 2018. ISBN 9781250139436. $27.99.

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