Disease & Health Issues
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Embodied Hope: A Theological Meditation on Pain and Suffering
$26.99 Add to cartWorld Magazine Book of the Year
Creative Quarterly Professional Graphic Design Runner-Up
Christianity Today‘s Book of the Year Winner
ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award“This book will make no attempt to de
- Author: Kapic, Kelly M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 205
- Publish Date: June 06 2017
- ISBN10: 0830851798
- Language: English
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Legacy: Trauma, Story, and Indigenous Healing
$19.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2019-20 Huguenot Society of Canada Award “Powerful … A deeply empathetic and inspiring work with insights of value to anyone struggling to overcome personal or communal trauma.” — Lib… [more below]
- Author: Methot, Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 19 2019
- ISBN10: 1770414258
- Language: English
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Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America
$19.95 Read moreThe Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state has become the most toxic site in the Western Hemisphere, yet most Americans are in the dark about the damage their government’s nuclear obsession h
- Author: Frank, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1642598283
- 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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The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care
$19.95 Add to cartWinner, Lambda Literary Award (LGBT Anthology)
The Remedy invites writers and readers to imagine what we need to create healthy, resilient, and thriving LGBTQ communities. This anthology is a diverse c
- Author: Sharman, Zena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 22 2016
- ISBN10: 1551526581
- Language: English
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Ending Parkinson’s Disease: A Prescription for Action
$19.99 Add to cartIn this “must-read” guide (Lonnie Ali), four leading doctors and advocates offer a bold action plan to prevent, care for, and treat Parkinson’s disease-one of the great health challenges of our time.
B… [more below]- Author: Dorsey, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 154172450X
- Language: English
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American Fix
$24.00 Add to cartIn American Fix, Ryan Hampton describes his personal struggle with addiction, outlines the challenges that the recovery movement currently faces, and offers a concrete, comprehensive plan of action to
- Author: Hampton, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1250257093
- Language: English
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Radical Reproductive Justice: Foundation, Theory, Practice, Critique
$29.95 Read morePractical tools and theoretical frameworks for understanding the fight for reproductive rights, from pregnancy to parenthood and beyond.
Expanding the social justice discourse surrounding “reproductive… [more below]
- Author: Ross, Loretta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: November 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1558614370
- Language: English
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From Oversight to Overkill: Inside the Broken System That Blocks Medical Breakthroughs–And How We Can Fix It
$22.95 Add to cartMedical research saves lives-yet all too often, it is thwarted by a review system supposed to safeguard patients that instead creates needless delays and expense. Institutional Review Boards, which ex
- Author: Whitney, Simon N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1953943225
- Language: English
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Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary
$15.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Tyranny comes an impassioned condemnation of America’s pandemic response and an urgent call to rethink health and fre… [more below]
- Author: Snyder, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0593238893
- Language: English
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Light Up the Night: America’s Overdose Crisis and the Drug Users Fighting for Survival
$31.48 Read moreA 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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Facing the Unseen: The Struggle to Center Mental Health in Medicine
$30.00 Read moreFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Black Man in a White Coat comes a powerful and urgent call to center psychiatry and mental health care into the mainstream of medicine
As much as we all m- Author: Tweedy, Damon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1250284899
- 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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Bodies and Barriers: Queer Activists on Health
$22.00 Read moreLGBT people pervasively experience health disparities, affecting every part of their bodies and lives. Yet many are still grappling to understand the mutually reinforcing health care challenges that l
- Author: Shanker, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 2020
- ISBN10: 162963784X
- 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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Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia
$30.00 Add to cartIn a devastating and urgent work of investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hamby uncovers the tragic resurgence of black lung disease in Appalachia, its Big Coal cover-up, and the resil… [more below]
- Author: Hamby, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0316299472
- Language: English
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Firewater: How Alcohol Is Killing My People (and Yours)
$14.95 Add to cartA passionate call to action, Firewater examines alcohol─its history, the myths surrounding it, and its devasting impact on Indigenous people. Drawing on his years of experience as a Crown Prosec… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: September 23 2016
- ISBN10: 0889774374
- Language: English
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Pharmanomics: How Big Pharma Destroys Global Health
$26.95 Read moreInvestigative journalist Nick Dearden digs down into the way we produce our medicines and finds that Big Pharma is failing us, with catastrophic consequences.
Big Pharma is more interested in profit t- Author: Dearden, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 1804291455
- Language: English
