Free health & illness books

Books about health and illness tell what it is like when the body stops cooperating. Patients, families, doctors and nurses all have stories here, in novels and in memoirs. They are about fear and endurance, and about how illness changes what a person thinks matters. This list shows the ones you can read in full for free.

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Thucydides
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Thucydides

Thucydides

1842 · 1881 edition

648 pages

Martin Chuzzlewit
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Martin Chuzzlewit

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Charles Dickens

Published 1870

1250 pages

Robinson Crusoe
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Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

1879 · 1893 edition

128 pages

Mansfield Park
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Mansfield Park

Jane Austen

Published 1892

328 pages

Coronavirus politics
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Coronavirus politics

Scott L. Greer, Elizabeth J. King, Elize Massard da Fonseca, Andre Peralta-Santos

Published 2021

654 pages

Two years ago
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Two years ago

Charles Kingsley

1857 · 1888 edition

520 pages

Loimographia
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Loimographia

William Boghurst

Published 1894

136 pages

Cured of cancer
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Cured of cancer

Nelia Langeveld

Published 2009

187 pages

Viral loads
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Viral loads

Lenore Manderson, Ayo Wahlberg, Nancy Jean Burke, Nancy J. Burke

Published 2021

466 pages

HIV Epidemics in the European Region
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HIV Epidemics in the European Region

Lucy Platt, Vivian Hope, Lucy Reynolds, Emma Jolley, Peter Vickerman, Alisher Latypov, Ford Hickson, Tim Rhodes

Published 2015

409 pages

Innovative Medicine
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Innovative Medicine

Uehara Memorial Foundation Symposium Tokyo, Japan)

Published 2015

339 pages