Some examples I’ve enjoyed:
- The Second Life of Mirielle West: a 1920s wife of a Hollywood star gets leprosy and has to move to a leper colony
- fever 1793 I read this in middle school so I don’t remember as well but it’s about yellow fever
- the pull of the stars: a nurse working on the obgyn ward (with shockingly medically accurate details!) during the Spanish flu
- honorable mention The Hot Zone. Even though it’s nonfiction I feel like it reads like fiction.
If there’s a historical fiction book that’s really good and medically accurate but doesn’t feature infectious disease I’ll take that suggestion too.
I’m a doctor planning to specialize in infectious disease and I just want to learn more but in a more entertaining way than informational podcasts and nonfiction.
by medstudenthowaway