Disease & Health Issues
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Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic
$18.99 Add to cartA New York Times Critics’ Top Ten Book of the Year * 2021 Edgar Award Winner Best Fact Crime * A Lit Hub Best Book of The Year
From a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter at the Charleston G- Author: Eyre, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1982105321
- Language: English
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The Kissing Bug
$17.95 Add to cartWinner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award
National Book Foundation Science + Literature Selection Finalist for New American Voices Award and Lammy Award for Bisexual Nonfiction A TIME, NPR, Chicago Publ- Author: Hernández, Daisy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1953534198
- Language: English
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The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
$19.99 Add to cart**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 PEN/JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION**
“An
**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDALS FOR EXCELLENCE**
**WINNER OF THE 2022 POZ AWARD FOR BEST IN LITERATURE**- Author: Thrasher, Steven W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1250796644
- Language: English
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The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
$29.99 Read more**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 PEN/JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION**
“An
**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDALS FOR EXCELLENCE**
**WINNER OF THE 2022 POZ AWARD FOR BEST IN LITERATURE**- Author: Thrasher, Steven W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1250796636
- Language: English
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Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction
$24.95 Add to cartA comprehensive collection of intergenerational voices on Liberatory Harm Reduction, mutual aid, and building community to save lives.
- Author: Hassan, Shira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1642598410
- Language: English
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The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth
$19.99 Read moreApple Best Books of 2021
From the New York Times bestselling author of Dreamland, a searing follow-up that explores th
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal * Shortlisted for the Zocalo Book Prize- Author: Quinones, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1639730478
- Language: English
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Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
$24.95 Add to cartIn Brilliant Imperfection Eli Clare uses memoir, history, and critical analysis to explore cure-the deeply held belief that body-minds considered broken need to be fixed. Cure serves many purposes. It… [more below]
- Author: Clare, Eli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 3, 2017
- ISBN10: 0822362872
- Language: English
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Lessons from the Covid War: An Investigative Report
$18.99 Read moreThis powerful report on what went wrong–and right–with America’s Covid response, from a team of 34 experts, shows how Americans faced the worst peacetime catastrophe of modern times
Our national le- Author: Crisis Group, Covid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 25, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541703804
- Language: English
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
$23.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The award-winning book that inspired an Apple Original series from Apple TV+ – A landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Kat… [more below]
- Author: Fink, Sheri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 26 2016
- ISBN10: 0307718972
- Language: English
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Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
$22.00 Add to cartRaj Patel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with physician, activist, and co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition Rupa Marya to reveal the links between health an
- Author: Marya, Rupa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1250849292
- Language: English
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The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers
$29.95 Read more“No journalist knows more about toxic chemicals in the workplace than Jim Morris. The Cancer Factory is the crowning achievement of his estimable career spent walking fence lines, factory floors, and … [more below]
- Author: Morris, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0807059145
- Language: English
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Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis
$19.99 Add to cartA “deeply reported, deeply moving” (Patrick Radden Keefe) account of everyday heroes fighting on the front lines of the overdose crisis, from the New York Times bestselling author of Dopesick (inspira
- Author: Macy, Beth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0316430218
- Language: English
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Tyranny of the Gene: Personalized Medicine and Its Threat to Public Health
$30.00 Read moreA revelatory account of how power, politics, and greed have placed the unfulfilled promise of personalized medicine at the center of American medicine
The United States is embarking on a medical revol- Author: Tabery, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0525658203
- Language: English
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A Letter to Liberals: Censorship and COVID: An Attack on Science and American Ideals
$19.99 Read moreA leading Democrat challenges his party to return to liberal values and evidence-based science
Democrats were the party of intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and faith in scientific and libera- Series: Children’s Health Defense
- Author: Kennedy, Robert F., Jr.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1510775587
- Language: English
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If I Betray These Words: Moral Injury in Medicine and Why It’s So Hard for Clinicians to Put Patients First
$29.00 Add to cartAn incredibly important and captivating book for patients, families, and clinicians detailing how we’re all hurt by corporate medicine
“Wendy Dean diagnoses the dangerous state of our healthcare syste- Author: Dean, Wendy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1586423541
- Language: English
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Who Cares: The Hidden Crisis of Caregiving, and How We Solve It
$30.00 Read moreAn intimate and deeply researched account of the experiences of unpaid caregivers, this “beautiful book” (Rob Delaney) calls for us all to put care at the center of our lives
When Emily Kenway became
- Author: Kenway, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 154160122X
- Language: English
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Poisoned: The True Story of the Deadly E. Coli Outbreak That Changed the Way Americans Eat
$19.99 Add to cartNOW A NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
From Jeff Benedict, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tiger Woods and The Dynasty, Poisoned chronicles the events surrounding the worst food-poisoning epidemic in U- Author: Benedict, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1982190175
- Language: English
