Disease & Health Issues
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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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Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland
$21.99 Add to cartA physician’s “provocative” (Boston Globe) and “timely” (Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times Book Review) account of how right-wing backlash policies have deadly consequences — even for the white vo… [more below]
- Author: Metzl, Jonathan M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1541604482
- 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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A Profession Without Reason: The Crisis of Contemporary Psychiatry–Untangled and Solved by Spinoza, Freethinking, and Radical Enlightenment
$20.00 Read moreThere is today a crisis in psychiatry. Even the former director of the National Institute of Mental Health has said: “Whatever we’ve been doing for five decades, it ain’t working.” The field of psychi… [more below]
- Author: Levine, Bruce E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 184935460X
- 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
$28.99 Add to cart2025 NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS GOLD WINNER
A groundbreaking redefinition of what it means to be healthy that introduces the need for social health–the part of wellbeing that comes from feeling connected–t
- Author: Killam, Kasley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 0063289113
- Language: English
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Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A “gripping” (The Washington Post) account of how the major transformations in history–from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism–have been shaped not by humans b… [more below]
- Author: Kennedy, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0593240499
- 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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The Fight for Sex Ed: The Century-Long Battle Between Truth and Doctrine
$29.95 Add to cartThe first comprehensive trade history of sex ed in American schools–and an impassioned call to reform sex ed into a powerful tool for reproductive justice and social equality
The U.S. has some of the- Author: Myers, Margaret Grace
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0807008060
- 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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Kinship Medicine: Cultivating Interdependence to Heal the Earth and Ourselves
$20.95 Add to cartFor fans of Braiding Sweetgrass, The Future We Choose, and The Blue Zones, a book about the effect our relationship to nature has on our well-being and health.
Our modern way of living is incompatible- Author: Johnson, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 9798889842736
- 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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Lead Babies and Poisoned Housing: Environmental Injustice, Systemic Racism, and Governmental Failure
$32.99 Add to cartDrawing on historic sources as well as present-day interviews, Lead Babies and Poisoned Housing is a story about systemic racism, environmental injustice, and the failure of government.
In 2016, 1,100
- Author: Boiarsky, Carolyn R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: September 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1612499473
- Language: English
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Languishing: How to Feel Alive Again in a World That Wears Us Down
$18.00 Add to cart“With his pioneering research, Corey Keyes put languishing on the map. In this powerful book, he brings it to life. Get ready to rethink your understanding of mental health, update your views on happi… [more below]
- Author: Keyes, Corey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0593444647
- Language: English
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All This Safety Is Killing Us: Health Justice Beyond Prisons, Police, and Borders–Abolitionist Frameworks and Practices from Clinicians, Organizers,
$22.95 Add to cartA multi-discipline, multimedia guide to abolition through the lens of healthcare and medicine – featuring writings and artwork from 10+ incarcerated and post-detention activists
Exposing how marginali- Author: Mukerjee, Ronica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- 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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So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs–And May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease
$35.00 Add to cartThe centuries-long quest to discover the critical role of germs in disease reveals as much about human reasoning–and the pitfalls of ego–as it does about microbes.
Scientists and enthusiastic amateu- Author: Levenson, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0593242734
- Language: English
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The Human Disease: How We Create Pandemics, from Our Bodies to Our Beliefs
$32.95 Add to cartHow the very fact of being human makes us vulnerable to pandemics–and gives us the power to save ourselves.
The COVID-19 pandemic won’t be our last–because what makes us vulnerable to pandemics also- Author: Sholts, Sabrina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 026204885X
- 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
