Disease & Health Issues
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VAX Facts: What to Consider Before Vaccinating at All Ages & Stages of Life
$26.95 Add to cartVax Facts is a one-stop-shop for all the information parents and guardians need to make an informed choice about childhood vaccinations.
The challenge for most who are wrestling with whether to give a … [more below]
- Author: Thomas, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1636984975
- Language: English
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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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Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls
$18.00 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
- Author: Hale, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 20, 2023
- ISBN10: 0802161820
- Language: English
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Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of the NBCC Award for General Nonfiction
Named on Amazon’s Best Books of the Year 2015–Michael Botticelli, U.S. Drug Czar (Politico) Favorite Book of the Year–Angus Deaton, Nobel Prize Economi- Author: Quinones, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 05, 2016
- ISBN10: 1620402521
- Language: English
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Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
$20.00 Add to cartINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER
This book is about pleasure. It’s also about pain.
“Brilliant . . . riveting, scary, cogent, and cleverly argued.”–Beth Macy, author of Dopesick- Author: Lembke, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1524746746
- 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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The Collective Cure: Upstream Solutions for Better Public Health
$27.95 Add to cartA personable, story-driven explanation of how the systems around us–where we live, work, learn, and connect–shape our health, and how each of us can help create healthier communities.
A powerful ble- Author: Wang, Monica L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0807017493
- Language: English
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The End of Violence: Eliminating the World’s Most Dangerous Epidemic
$30.00 Read moreA paradigm-shifting new approach to ending the epidemic of violence in our lifetime, using the same epidemic control playbook that has rid the world of other contagious diseases.
Violence is often de- Author: Slutkin, Gary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 031652011X
- Language: English
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The Art and Science of Connection: Why Social Health Is the Missing Key to Living Longer, Healthier, and Happier
$18.99 Add to cart2025 NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS GOLD WINNER * 2024 LIVING NOW BOOK AWARDS GOLD MEDAL WINNER * HARVARD PUBLIC HEALTH MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF 2024 * ASPEN IDEAS RECOMMENDED HEALTH BOOK OF 2024
A groundbreaking
- Author: Killam, Kasley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0063289121
- Language: English
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The Cure for Everything: The Epic Struggle for Public Health and a Radical Vision for Human Thriving
$32.00 Add to cartThe inspiring story of how we overcame a history of infectious disease, poisonous environments, and early death and unlocked an explosion in human potential–and a vision for the work ahead to optimiz… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Michelle A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0593595548
- Language: English
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Why Live: How Suicide Becomes an Epidemic
$18.00 Add to cartWhat causes suicide epidemics–and how can we prevent them?
Many suicides are caused by biological mental illness, but sometimes the suicide rate of a particular group jumps–two-, three-, or even ten- Author: Epstein, Helen C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 9798987053744
- 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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The Autumn Ghost: How the Battle Against a Polio Epidemic Revolutionized Modern Medical Care
$19.95 Add to cart“A perfectly pitched medical mystery that will captivate you from page one.”–Wes Ely, MD, MPH, author of Every Deep-Drawn Breath, winner of the 2022 Christopher Award for Literature.
A suspenseful, a- Author: Wunsch, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1778402135
- Language: English
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The Resilience Myth: New Thinking on Grit, Strength, and Growth After Trauma
$18.99 Add to cartA “vital, life-saving must-read” (Nora McInerny, author of Bad Vibes Only) manifesto for communal resilience based on in-depth investigations into history, social science, and psychology, from the bes… [more below]
- Author: Chemaly, Soraya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1982170778
- Language: English
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The Formula for Better Health: How to Save Millions of Lives–Including Your Own
$29.95 Add to cartThe formula to stop invisible killers–an approach that can protect your health and prevent the next pandemic–from one of the most influential public health leaders in the US.
In The Formula for Bett- Author: Frieden, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 026205096X
- 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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Health Communism
$19.95 Add to cartA searing analysis of health and illness under capitalism from hosts of the hit podcast “Death Panel”
In this fiery, theoretical tour-de-force, Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant offer an overv- Author: Adler-Bolton, Beatrice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1839765178
- Language: English
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Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Coronaviruses and Beyond
$21.99 Add to cartFinalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
“[A] grounded, bracingly intelligent study.” —Nature
Prizewinning science journalist Sonia Shah presents a sta- Author: Shah, Sonia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1250793246
- Language: English
