Disease & Health Issues
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Undoing Drugs: How Harm Reduction Is Changing the Future of Drugs and Addiction
$18.99 Add to cartFrom “one of the bravest, smartest writers about addiction anywhere” (Johann Hari, New York Times bestselling author)–the untold story of harm reduction, a surprisingly simple idea with enormous powe… [more below]
- Author: Szalavitz, Maia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 0738285749
- Language: English
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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America
$21.99 Add to cartA Hulu limited series inspired by the New York Times bestselling book by Beth Macy.
Journalist Beth Macy’s definitive account of America’s opioid epidemic “masterfully interlaces stories of communitie- Author: Macy, Beth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 06, 2019
- ISBN10: 0316551309
- Language: English
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A Pox on Fools: The True Believers, Grifters, and Cynics Who Convinced Us to Reject Vaccines
$28.00 Read moreAn urgent and profound history of vaccine skepticism, seeking to understand how our three most common fears about vaccines hardened into a lethal ideology–from a leading science writer
Since the adve- Author: Levenson, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217155002
- Language: English
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Fair Doses: An Insider’s Story of the Pandemic and the Global Fight for Vaccine Equity
$29.95 Add to cartHow vaccines became the world’s most powerful and widely distributed health intervention, and the inside story of the challenging race to deliver COVID-19 vaccines globally.
Fair Doses is a story of v- Author: Berkley, Seth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0520413164
- Language: English
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The Great Shadow: A History of How Sickness Shapes What We Do, Think, Believe, and Buy
$30.00 Add to cartFrom alchemy to wellness culture, from antisemitism to disposable plastic, a gripping account of how getting sick has shaped humanity.
Anti-science, anti-vaccine, anti-reason beliefs seem to be triumph- Author: Bauer, Susan Wise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1250272912
- Language: English
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Off the Scales: The Inside Story of Ozempic and the Race to Cure Obesity
$30.00 Add to cartThe inside story of the race to develop Ozempic, and its potentially revolutionary impact on public health and culture.
A “cure” for obesity has long been the holy grail for the pharmaceutical industry- Author: Donnellan, Aimee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1250389062
- Language: English
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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
$18.00 Add to cartSusan Sontag’s celebrated essays on cancer and AIDS now available in one volume.
In 1978, Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as “one of the most liberating books of- Author: Sontag, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1250374731
- Language: English
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Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs
$32.00 Add to cartThe bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the new drugs transforming weight loss as we know it–from his personal experience on Ozempic to our ability to … [more below]
- Author: Hari, Johann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0593948998
- Language: English
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Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs
$30.00 Add to cartThe bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the new drugs transforming weight loss as we know it–from his personal experience on Ozempic to our ability to … [more below]
- Author: Hari, Johann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0593728637
- Language: English
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Mother of Methadone: A Doctor’s Quest, a Forgotten History, and a Modern-Day Crisis
$28.95 Add to cartBrings together the stories of two doctors battling the opioid epidemic half a century apart to reveal the origins of today’s public health crisis
A call to remove the stigma against addicts, addicti- Author: Glenn, Melody
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0807017760
- Language: English
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Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge
$24.95 Read moreDrugs are ubiquitous in the past and present of capitalist society. What can they tell us about our society and economy?
Americans are in the midst of a world-historic drug binge. Opiates, amphetamine- Series: Jacobin
- Author: Y. Fong, Benjamin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1804290173
- Language: English
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Rehab: An American Scandal
$29.99 Add to cartPulitzer finalist Shoshana Walter exposes the country’s failed response to the opioid crisis, and the malfeasance, corruption, and snake oil which blight the drug rehabilitation industry.
Our country’- Author: Walter, Shoshana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1982149825
- Language: English
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2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed
$19.00 Add to cartA meticulously reported, character-driven, unforgettable investigation of a time when nothing was certain and everything was at stake, by the acclaimed sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenb… [more below]
- Author: Klinenberg, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0593313607
- Language: English
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They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals
$30.00 Add to cartA landmark investigation of the chemical industry’s decades-long campaign to hide the dangers of forever chemicals, told through the story of a small town on the frontlines of an epic public health cr… [more below]
- Author: Blake, Mariah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1524760099
- Language: English
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Survive and Thrive! How Cancer Saves Lives: Inspiring Stories of Courageous Cancer Thrivers
$18.95 Add to cartAccording to the Cancer Council, 1 in 2 Australians will be diagnosed with cancer by the age of 85. Similar figures are reported for the USA and UK. Inevitably everyone in these countries will be impa
- Series: Survive and Thrive! #1
- Author: Spicer, Jo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: February 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0648436101
- Language: English
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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
$30.00 Add to cartJohn Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadlie… [more below]
- Author: Green, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217168422
- Language: English
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Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics: Mental Illness and Homelessness in Los Angeles
$30.00 Add to cartSociologist Neil Gong explains why mental health treatment in Los Angeles rarely succeeds, for the rich, the poor, and everyone in between.
In 2022, Los Angeles became the US county with the largest- Author: Gong, Neil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 29 2024
- ISBN10: 022658190X
- Language: English
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Plagues in the Nation: How Epidemics Shaped America
$28.95 Read moreAn expert legal review of the US government’s response to epidemics through history–with larger conclusions about COVID-19, and reforms needed for the next plague
In this narrative history of the US- Author: Price, Polly J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0807043494
- Language: English
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Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol
$18.99 Add to cartIn Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol, award-winning journalist Anne Dowsett Johnston combines in-depth research with her own personal story of recovery, and delivers a groundb
- Author: Dowsett Johnston, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 24 2014
- ISBN10: 006224180X
- Language: English
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Your Consent Is Not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abusive Guardianships
$29.95 Read moreAsylums are supposed to be in the past. However, though the buildings were closed, many of the practices lived on.
In fact, more law-abiding Americans today are being involuntarily committed and forci- Author: Wipond, Rob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1637741480
- Language: English
