Medicine & Health
Individual topics classified under "Medicine & Health", ranked by how many awards the books carrying each one have won combined. Open a topic to see its most-awarded books.
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- 1
History of medicine
17 books
12
wins
139
score
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer · Siddhartha Mukherjee2 wins · 26 score
- The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry · Paul Starr2 wins · 20 score
- The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine · Lindsey Fitzharris2 wins · 13 score
- NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently · Steve Silberman1 win · 12 score
- The Life of Sir William Osler, 2 vols. · Harvey Cushing1 win · 12 score
- 2
Neuroscience
19 books
5
wins
87
score
- The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence · Carl Sagan1 win · 16 score
- Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets · Luke Dittrich2 wins · 13 score
- Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain · Sarah-Jayne Blakemore1 win · 8 score
- Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior · Leonard Mlodinow1 win · 5 score
- A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness · Michael Pollan0 wins · 3 score
- 3
Mental illness
11 books
4
wins
75
score
- The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression · Andrew Solomon1 win · 16 score
- The Memory Palace · Mira Bartók1 win · 12 score
- In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind · Eric R. Kandel1 win · 11 score
- Becoming William James · Howard M. Feinstein0 wins · 8 score
- John Clare: A Biography · Jonathan Bate1 win · 8 score
- 4
Medical ethics
7 books
4
wins
45
score
- Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets · Luke Dittrich2 wins · 13 score
- The Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and a Medical Miracle · Rachel Clarke1 win · 12 score
- The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine · James Le Fanu, M.D.1 win · 8 score
- Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society · Daniel Callahan0 wins · 4 score
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks · Rebecca Skloot0 wins · 3 score
- 5
Medical history
6 books
2
wins
36
score
- How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS · David France1 win · 12 score
- Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vaccine · Jane S. Smith1 win · 8 score
- The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine · Janice P. Nimura0 wins · 5 score
- In a Different Key: The Story of Autism · John Donvan, Caren Zucker0 wins · 4 score
- The Story of a Heart · Rachel Clarke0 wins · 4 score
- 6
Public health
4 books
2
wins
34
score
- Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris · Richard Kluger1 win · 22 score
- The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity · Roy Porter1 win · 8 score
- The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life · Nancy Tomes0 wins · 3 score
- Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes · Gregg Mitman0 wins · 1 score
- 7
Opioid epidemic
3 books
2
wins
32
score
- 8
Schizophrenia
3 books
2
wins
31
score
- 9
Child development
5 books
2
wins
22
score
- Negro and White Children: A Psychological Study in the Rural South · E. Earl Baughman and W. Grant Dahlstrom1 win · 5 score
- The Ecology of Human Development: Experiments by Nature and Design · Urie Bronfenbrenner1 win · 5 score
- A Slant of Sun: One Child's Courage · Beth Kephart0 wins · 4 score
- The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do · Judith Rich Harris0 wins · 4 score
- The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit · Melvin Konner0 wins · 4 score
- 10
Public health policy
7 books
1
win
27
score
- Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation · Linda Villarosa1 win · 9 score
- And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic · Randy Shilts0 wins · 4 score
- When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution · Devra Davis0 wins · 4 score
- Spike: The Virus vs The People · Jeremy Farrar and Anjana Ahuja0 wins · 3 score
- Spike: The Virus vs. The People – the Inside Story · Jeremy Farrar with Anjana Ahuja0 wins · 3 score
- 11
AIDS epidemic
5 books
1
win
26
score
- How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS · David France1 win · 12 score
- And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic · Randy Shilts0 wins · 4 score
- Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir · Paul Monette0 wins · 4 score
- My Own Country: A Doctor's Story · Abraham Verghese0 wins · 4 score
- Blood Farm: The Explosive Big Pharma Scandal that Altered the AIDS Crisis · Cara McGoogan0 wins · 2 score
- 12
Autism
3 books
1
win
20
score
- 13
Pharmaceutical industry corruption
3 books
1
win
19
score
- 14
Psychiatry
3 books
1
win
18
score
- 15
Addiction and recovery
3 books
1
win
16
score
- 16
Mental illness and creativity
3 books
1
win
13
score
- 17
COVID-19 pandemic
4 books
0
wins
16
score
- Breathless: The Scientific Race To Defeat a Deadly Virus · David Quammen0 wins · 7 score
- Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy · Adam Tooze0 wins · 3 score
- Spike: The Virus vs The People · Jeremy Farrar and Anjana Ahuja0 wins · 3 score
- Spike: The Virus vs. The People – the Inside Story · Jeremy Farrar with Anjana Ahuja0 wins · 3 score
- 18
Mental illness and schizophrenia
3 books
0
wins
10
score
- 19
Longevity and aging
3 books
0
wins
9
score
- Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity · Nicklas Brendborg, trans. by Elizabeth de Noma0 wins · 3 score
- The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity · Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott0 wins · 3 score
- The Longevity Imperative: Building a Better Society for Healthier, Longer Lives · Andrew Scott0 wins · 3 score
- 20
Medical research
3 books
0
wins
9
score
- 21
Mental health
3 books
0
wins
9
score
Recent Standout Topics (2020+)
- 1Public health policy1 win
- 2COVID-19 pandemic0 wins
Where This Data Comes From
- Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction2012–2026
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Award1936–2026
- Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction1999–2026
- Bancroft Prize1948–2026
- Cundill History Prize2008–2026
- Financial Times and Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year Award2005–2026
- J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize1999–2026
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography1919–2025
- Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction2014–2026
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography1981–2025