Disease & Health Issues
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Ending Epidemics: A History of Escape from Contagion
$34.95 Read moreHow scientists saved humanity from the deadliest infectious diseases–and what we can do to prepare ourselves for future epidemics.
After the unprecedented events of the COVID-19 pandemic, it may be h- Author: Conniff, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047969
- Language: English
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Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat
$24.95 Add to cart“Hannah Proctor takes that feeling we all have, and names it again and again, helping us to resee the past and present of revolutionary struggle. A must-read.”
-Hannah Zeavin, Founding Editor, Paraprax… [more below]- Author: Proctor, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1839766050
- Language: English
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Accidental Kindness: A Doctor’s Notes on Empathy
$19.00 Add to cartWe will all be patients sooner or later. And when we go to the doctor, when we’re hurting, we tend to think in terms of cause and condemnation. We often look for relief not only from physical symptoms… [more below]
- Author: Stein, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1469671816
- Language: English
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Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction
$21.95 Add to cartNorth America is in the grips of a drug epidemic; with the introduction of fentanyl, the chances of a fatal overdose are greater than ever, prompting many to rethink the war on drugs. Public opinion h… [more below]
- Author: Lupick, Travis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 155152712X
- Language: English
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American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
$17.99 Add to cartA comprehensive portrait of a uniquely American epidemic — devastating in its findings and damning in its conclusions
The opioid epidemic has been described as “one of the greatest mistakes of moder- Author: McGreal, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1541742753
- Language: English
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Is This Wi-Fi Organic?: A Guide to Spotting Misleading Science Online (Science Myths Debunked)
$16.95 Add to cartHow to Separate Real Scientific Truths from Fake News
“Scientific literacy is our best defense in an age of increasing disinformation.” ―Kellie Gerardi, Aerospace Professional and Author of Not N
- Author: Farina, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: March 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1642504157
- Language: English
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Malicious Intent: Murder and the Perpetuation of Jim Crow Health Care
$27.95 Add to cart“Do we want to perpetuate a Jim Crow health system?” A brilliant, idealistic physician named Jean Cowsert asked that question in Alabama in 1966. Her answer was no–and soon after, she died under susp… [more below]
- Author: Smith, David Barton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0826506135
- Language: English
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Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls
$27.00 Add to cartThe first full account of the Slenderman stabbing, a true crime narrative of mental illness, the American judicial system, the trials of adolescence, and the power of the internet
On May 31, 2014, in t… [more below]
- Author: Hale, Kathleen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 080215980X
- Language: English
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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America
$46.00 Add to cartJournalist Beth Macy’s definitive account of America’s opioid epidemic “masterfully interlaces stories of communities in crisis with dark histories of corporate greed and regulatory indifference” (New… [more below]
- Author: Macy, Beth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: August 07 2018
- ISBN10: 0316523178
- Language: English
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Tell Your Children: The Truth about Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
$19.99 Add to cartIn “a brilliant antidote to all the…false narratives about pot” (American Thinker), an award-winning author and former New York Times reporter reveals the link between teenage marijuana use and ment… [more below]
- Author: Berenson, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1982103671
- Language: English
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Epidemics: The Impact of Germs and Their Power Over Humanity
$21.99 Add to cartUnlike other books on epidemics, which either focus on the science behind how microbes cause disease or tell first-person accounts of one particular disease, Epidemics: The Impact of Germs and Their P
- Author: Loomis, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1684426731
- Language: English
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Teeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
$23.00 Add to cartAn NPR Best Book of 2017 that exposes our oral health crisis and the astonishing role that teeth and oral health play in our society
In this brilliant debut book, hailed by the New York Times Book Rev
- Author: Otto, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1620974827
- Language: English
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Light Up the Night: America’s Overdose Crisis and the Drug Users Fighting for Survival
$31.48 Add to cartA revelatory, moving narrative that offers a harrowing critique of the war on drugs from voices seldom heard in the conversation: drug users who are working on the front lines to reduce overdose death
- Author: Lupick, Travis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1620976382
- Language: English
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What Doesn’t Kill Us Makes Us: Who We Become After Tragedy and Trauma
$18.99 Read more“A bold and intricate exploration of catastrophe as not just a transformative experience or a test case for resilience, but something that completely reinvents us–a reincarnation.”–Robert Kolker, #1… [more below]
- Author: Mariani, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0593236963
- Language: English
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Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic
$20.00 Add to cartA remarkable four-year investigation into the dangerous world of synthetic drugs–from black market drug factories in China to users and dealers on the streets of the U.S. to harm reduction activists … [more below]
- Author: Westhoff, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0802157378
- Language: English
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Lifelines: A Doctor’s Journey in the Fight for Public Health
$19.99 Add to cartFrom medical expert Leana Wen, MD, Lifelines is an insider’s account of public health and its crucial role–from opioid addiction to global pandemic–and an inspiring story of her journey from struggl
- Author: Wen, Leana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 13, 2022
- ISBN10: 1250839351
- Language: English
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On Immunity: An Inoculation
$18.00 Read more“On Immunity is a book I’ve recommended too many times to count–a searching, empathetic, ultimately unassailable argument, not just for vaccination but for thoroughly acknowledging our interdependenc
- Author: Biss, Eula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1555977200
- Language: English
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The Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care
$19.99 Add to cart“Next-level revelatory.”
“Excellent…Rina really knows her shit…I’m so thankful for this book.”
–Sarah Knight, New York Times bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck
–Jam- Author: Raphael, Rina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1250861535
- Language: English
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The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town
$18.99 Add to cartBEST OF THE 2022 RUSA Book & Media AWARDS One of Biblioracle’s 8 favorite nonfiction books of 2021 in the Chicago Tribune The New York Post‘s BEST BOOKS OF 2021 USA Today‘s 5 BOOKS NOT TO MISS
“Alexa- Author: Alexander, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1250828686
- Language: English
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Special: Antidotes to the obsessions that comes with a child’s disability
$21.00 Add to cartMost of us expect to meander through the motions of love, marriage and (textbook) baby in the carriage, but once in a while life has something a little more special in store.
Special is an uplifting,
- Author: Dimmitt, Melanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1925384683
- Language: English
