June 2023 Issue Ben Gummer A Prick in Time Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations By Simon Schama LR
September 2022 Issue Norma Clarke Sulphur & Sensibility Murky Waters: British Spas in Eighteenth-Century Medicine and Literature By Sophie Vasset LR
August 2022 Issue Jonathan Sumption In Sickness and in Wealth The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe By James Belich LR
April 2022 Issue Iain Bamforth What Flesh is Heir To This Mortal Coil: A History of Death By Andrew Doig LR
April 2020 Issue Patricia Fara Suffragettes with Stethoscopes Endell Street: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran World War One’s Most Remarkable Military Hospital By Wendy Moore
November 2019 Issue Patrick Mcguinness The Death of Doctor Dieu The Man in the Red Coat By Julian Barnes
July 2017 Issue Simon Heffer Viral News Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World By Laura Spinney LR
September 1995 Issue Alan Shipman We Are All At Risk Plague's Progress: A Social History of Man and Disease By Arno Karlen LR
August 2016 Issue anthony daniels Fade to Black The End of Memory: A Natural History of Aging and Alzheimer’s By Jay Ingram LR
June 2003 Issue Christopher Ondaatje You Give Me Fever The Miraculous Fever-Tree: Malaria, Medicine and the Cure that Changed the World By Fiammetta Rocco LR
July 2004 Issue Chandak Sengoopta The Speckled Monster The Life and Death of Smallpox By Ian Glynn, Jenifer Glynn LR
February 2009 Issue Anthony Daniels Doctor, Doctor Taking the Medicine: A Short History of Medicine’s Beautiful Idea and Our Difficulty Swallowing It By Druin Burch LR
June 2008 Issue Richard Barber Bones and Buboes The Black Death: An Intimate History of the Plague By John Hatcher LR
August 2007 Issue Virginia Ironside A Grubby Lot Clean: A History of Personal Hygiene and Purity By Virginia Smith LR
July 2012 Issue David Profumo Moby Yuck Floating Gold: A Natural (and Unnatural) History of Ambergris By Christopher Kemp LR
July 2012 Issue Charlotte Faircloth A Well-Rounded Account Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History By Florence Williams LR
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