Reddit mentions of History of Medicine, Second Edition: A Scandalously Short Introduction

I saved this post so I could come back to it later when I was more rested. Lots of good suggestions. I thought it might be useful to share some of the nonsense that's in my bookshelves.

Almost Chimpanzee by Jon Cohen

The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris

Planet Ape by Desmond Morris

The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan

[Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadows_of_Forgotten_Ancestors_(book) by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan

Paleofantasy by Marlene Zuk

How To Think Like a Neanderthal by Thomas Wynn and Frederick L. Coolidge

Parasite Rex by Carl Zimmer

History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction by Jacalyn Duffin

The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity by Roy Porter

The Sea & Civilization: A Maritime History of the World by Lincoln Paine

The History of World Civilization: From Prehistoric Times to The Middle Ages Volume One and Volume Two by Hermann Schneider FYI this guy was a professor in Leipzig during WWII and a member of the Nazi party. Full text in link

Food in History by Reay Tannahill

The Book of Symbols: Reflections on Archetypal Images published by Taschen

Colonies in Space by T.A. Heppenheimer Full text in link

Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That Will Improve and/or Ruin Everything by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith

Some of those are still on my reading list, others are books I've carried with me for over a decade. I've also got many encyclopedias on extinct animals, dinosaurs, and living fauna. Some cryptozoological texts. And I'd also recommend religious texts. Interpreting something that dense can be hard without commentary but exploring non-Christian perspectives is very much "worth it" when it comes to worldbuilding so I've got a copy of Popul Vuh by Dennis Tedlock full text in link, but no pictures and I'm working on finding a good Bhagavad Gita.

Unsure of how academic you want to go, but "A History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction" (here) is authored by a practicing physician and professor of medicine at Queen's University in Canada.

It's a pretty entertaining and accessible read.