📚 Medicine

The body as a machine that fails in patterned ways, and the long, often bloody road to evidence-based treatment.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject medicine in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Domestic medicine	William Buchan M.D.	1769	202
	Principles of internal medicine	Tinsley Randolph Harrison	1950	173
	Arabian medicine	Edward Granville Browne	1899	101
	Organon der rationellen Heilkunde	Samuel Hahnemann	1810	84
	De medicina	Aulus Cornelius Celsus	1478	72
	Making of a Doctor Part 2	Julius Adebiyi Akanni ?odip?	2022	57
	Advances in Medicine and Biology	Leon V. Berhardt	2014	51
	First lines of the practice of physic	William Cullen	1777	40
	A system of practical medicine	Alexander Tweedie	1840	40
	Practical medical dictionary	Thomas Lathrop Stedman	1918	37
	This is going to hurt	Adam Kay	2017	27
	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot	2009	25
	The principles and practice of medicine	Davidson, Stanley Sir	1952	23
	The Language of Medicine	Davi-Ellen Chabner	1976	23
	Naissance de la clinique	Michel Foucault	1963	22
	Medical Terminology	Marjorie Canfield Willis	1996	21
	All Things Bright and Beautiful (All Creatures Great and Small #3-4)	James Herriot	1974	20
	The Great Influenza	John M. Barry	2004	20
	Carakasaṃhitā	Caraka	1877	19
	Medical Terminology For Health Professions	Ann Ehrlich	1988	17
	Herbal medicine	Dian Dincin Buchman	1979	12
	Medical terminology for dummies	Beverley Henderson	2012	11
	Better	Atul Gawande	2007	10
	The laws of medicine	Siddhartha Mukherjee	2015	9
	Simple, effective treatment of agoraphobia	Claire Weekes	1976	8
	Calculus for biology and medicine	Claudia Neuhauser	2000	8
	The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth	Thomas Morris	2018	6
	Mastering the Ucat Third Edition	Christopher Nordstrom	2019	6
	Traditional Chinese medicine	Sheila McNamara	1995	5
	Lost Book of Herbal Remedies	Nicole Apelian	2019	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 29 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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