Whole Person & Leisure Reading Collection in Kirksville

Explore the environmental history of Kansas City impacted from the two great rivers flowing through it.

Follow the people who worked hard to legally undo slave laws through the 'freedom suits'.
Alternate Genre: African American History

Artists played a huge role in the medical field before photography, and this book showcases the way they captured anatomy.
Alternate Genres: Art, Medicine

Macy explores how America embraced a medical culture of turning over usage of painkillers into the norm, and how that affects real families.
Alternate Genres: Medical, Politics, True Crime

This book focuses on the personal struggles and triumphs that each of these heroes had to face, and how they did what they could to better the world.
Alternate Genre: African American History

After realizing that Bruce Tucker's heart was taken and donated without knowledge or consent, the Tucker family exposed the reality of the racial inequality within the medical field.
Alternate Genres: Medical, Race, True Crime

Grann recreates the hidden world of a British warship, highlighting the truth about murderous captains and the reality of the empire behind it all.

This book explores how 19th century American ideas of race influenced relationships between patients and their doctors.
Alternate Genres: Medical, Race

Herman shares a new view at the use of poison throughout centuries of royal courts, from the intentional killings to the unintentional side effects of commonly used products.
Alternate Genres: Medical, Science, True Crime

In this book, Ryan explains the role that viruses have had on the evolution of life, and the many ways they have changed and shaped humans.
Alternate Genres: Medical, Science

Diving deep into the flu epidemic, Kolata addresses what can be done to prevent such epidemics from reoccurring.
Alternate Genres: Medical, Science

MacDonald shares the story of how abuses over the use of bodies for dissections and studying anatomy took place in some of the most civilized societies.
Alternate Genres: Medical, Science

Gleick shares how information technologies have changed human consciousness, and the key figures behind those discoveries.
Alternate Genre: Science

Jason Haxton, a museum curator from Missouri, becomes the proud owner of a mysterious box with a long and twisted history.
Alternate Genres: Occult, Supernatural

Eban exposes the deceit behind generic-drug manufacturing, and the risks they pose on global health.
Alternate Genres: Business, Medical, Politics

Spinney draws from latest research to recount one of the greatest human disasters, the Spanish flu of 1918.
Alternate Genres: Medical, Science

This book does a deep dive on the scientific struggle against deadly diseases throughout the last century.
Alternate Genres: Medical, Science

Zuk provides eye-opening research that shows the quick pace evolution can really work in order for our species to adapt.
Alternate Genre: Science

Wadman focuses on the major breakthrough in cell biology that led to some of the most important vaccines, especially for pregnant woman and their fetuses.
Alternate Genres: Medical, Science

This book showcases the world's largest medical library, with a collection of more than 17 million items that date back from the 11th century.
Alternate Genres: Art, Medical, Science

Hammond explores the impact different diseases had on the development of modern societies.
Alternate Genres: Medical, Social History

Alexander investigated the life and medical discoveries of African and African-American physicians, and put together the contributions they have provided to the medical world.
Alternate Genres: African History, African American History

This books shares the way science has been misused, and how we can learn from those mistakes to use science for good.
Alternate Genre: Science

Farmer witnessed the Ebola crisis firsthand, and here he shares his account of the medical catastrophe.
Alternate Genres: Medical, Science

Ungar explains and expands on how teeth can show the legacy of our evolution, how we came to be.
Alternate Genre: Science

This book shares over 150 works of art that showcases medical history from Paleolithic times to present day.
Alternate Genres: Art, Medicine

This books explores the different ways ancient Greeks affected the way of medical thinking.
Alternate Genres: Medical, Science

Fink shares the stark reality of how unprepared America is for large-scale disasters, and how we can do better.
Alternate Genre: Medical

Mukherjee brings forward the goal to better understand genetics, and the scientific wonders we can achieve with those explorations.
Alternate Genres: Medical, Science