Are you looking for some interesting history of medicine to research? Here are some ideas (thread).

We need multiple books on the social and cultural history of medical conferences. These books could be anthologies, ethnographies, or histories. They should be written by someone with a sense of humor.

Lightning strikes, in particular. Seriously. There's a whole area here that's fascinating. So far as I know, no one's written about it.

In the same spirit as the above, electrical injuries and death, in general. Seriously. The whole world electrifies after 1910. Lots of people died. There's an amazing history here. Can't think of a book on it.

Falls. People die by falling over. Not only is this really strange, but it reflects a lot about our urban and domestic environments. I don't think anyone has really written a book about these.

Patients who lingered in comas before the invention of ICUs, preferably before 1900. Its clear that there were ways these bodies were taken care of. The expression "coma vigil" suggests it. How? What happened? Can't think of a book.

Love affairs between doctors and patients; doctors and nurses; hospitalized patients with other hospitalized patients. This is going to get super weird fast, and will tell us a lot about sexuality in modern culture. Can't think of a book about it.

Ganser syndrome. Can somebody for the love of God write about this?

The life experiences of self-identified pre-med students in historically black colleges in the United States, c1880-1975. It has to exist right? I don't think it does. I admit I could be wrong.

Am I wrong that a lot of medicine got talked about in advice columns in newspapers and periodicals? What was that about? Is there a book dedicated to it?

How about "heat exhaustion/heat stroke". Seriously. I just don't see how that wasn't a major challenge. There's good scholarship on "heat". But I'd like to know about it as an occupation illness.

Medical malpractice in the 20th century. There's a gargantuan amount on this in other fields. But has anyone actually sat down and tried to write a synthesis on this topic? I know of 19th century studies in Britain/America. 20th C? Anyone?

Isn't there some kind of cultural history to be written about restaurants and public health? I'm not talking per se about foodborne illness (on which there is some good work) but rather representations of food as healthy or not.

What about weird patrons for medical research in 20th century America. We know a lot about a few major philanthropic organizations, especially Rockefeller Foundation. My gut says that there are many others, not all of whom were disinterested benevolents. Is there a book?

Drowning. Seriously. I don't think there's a real book on this topic that looks at it in the context of recreational swimming or as an occupational risk.

Speaking of pandemics (yeah I know we didn't) but like basically every medical historian I know was embarrassed to realize that we didn't quite know what universities had done in the past when plague struck. Someone should answer that for next time. Gulp....

Age specific standards for children's toys. Don't you think it is an amazing thing to know that a toy is appropriate for a 2 year-old but not a 1 year old? Or a 5 and up, but not 4.999 and down? Where did this epistemology come from?

Here's my final one. It strikes me that many, many medical histories and medical museums have emphasized the macabre and horrible in their representations of medicine's past. When did that start? How has it changed? Let's say 1543 to present.