Disease & Health Issues
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Epic Measures: One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients.
$18.99 Add to cartMoneyball meets medicine in this remarkable chronicle of one of the greatest scientific quests of our time–the groundbreaking program to answer the most essential question for humanity: how do we liv
- Author: Smith, Jeremy N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0062237519
- Language: English
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Blood Farm: The Explosive Big Pharma Scandal That Altered the AIDS Crisis
$28.99 Read moreShortlisted for the Lukas Book Prize
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Financial Times
“A stunning investigation.”—-Publishers Weekly
How a miracle treatment turned deadly and changed the course o
- Author: McGoogan, Cara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1635768888
- 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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Slow Dancing with a Stranger: Lost and Found in the Age of Alzheimer’s
$18.99 Add to cartEmmy-award winning broadcast journalist and leading Alzheimer’s advocate Meryl Comer’s Slow Dancing With a Stranger is a profoundly personal, unflinching account of her husband’s battle with Alzheimer
- Author: Comer, Meryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 08 2015
- ISBN10: 0062130854
- 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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Toxic Legacy: How the Weedkiller Glyphosate Is Destroying Our Health and the Environment
$20.00 Add to cartNamed a “Best Book of the Year” by Kirkus Reviews
“Urgent and eye-opening, the book serves as a loud-and-clear alarm.”―The Boston Globe
Named an “Outstanding Academic Title” by Choice
From an M
- Author: Seneff, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1645021874
- Language: English
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Morgellons Disease: The Silent Pandemic
$12.95 Add to cartThe highly contagious Morgellons disease is caused by a fungus. It can be transmitted by air; contact with an infected area; and contact with infected person, pet, farm animal, wildlife, or insect. It
- Author: Hernandez, Armando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 60
- Publish Date: April 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1648010245
- 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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Living Well with a Serious Illness: A Guide to Palliative Care for Mind, Body, and Spirit
$19.95 Add to cartA practical guide for understanding how palliative care can improve quality of life for patients and their caregivers.
Robin Bennett Kanarek was a registered nurse working with patients suffering from
- Series: Johns Hopkins Press Health Books (Paperback)
- Author: Kanarek, Robin Bennett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1421445980
- Language: English
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Who Killed My Father
$14.95 Read moreWho Killed My Father rips into France’s long neglect of the working class and its overt contempt for the poor, accusing the complacent French politicians– at the minimum–of negligent homicide. The a… [more below]
- Author: Louis, Edouard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0811235041
- Language: English
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The Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China’s Secret Solution to Its Dissident Problem
$25.95 Add to cartThe inside story of China’s organtransplant business and its macabre connection with internment camps and killing fields for arrested dissidents, especially the adherents of Falun Gong. Mass murder is… [more below]
- Author: Gutmann, Ethan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 12 2014
- ISBN10: 161614940X
- 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
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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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Parkinson’s Disease for Dummies
$24.99 Add to cartMaintain a take-charge attitude and live your life to the fullest with Parkinson’s
Whether the diagnosis is yours or that of a loved one, Parkinson’s Disease for Dummies contains everything you need t
- Author: Horne, Jo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1119893585
- 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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Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society
$21.99 Add to cartFusing science and social justice, renowned public health researcher Dr. Arline T. Geronimus offers an urgent, “monumental” book (Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped from the Beginning) exploring the wa
- Author: Geronimus, Arline T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 23, 2024
- ISBN10: 0316258075
- Language: English
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The Day After Yesterday: Resilience in the Face of Dementia
$34.95 Read moreA deft combination of narrative and portraiture that breaks the taboo around dementia, replacing the fear and futility with empathy and nuance.
A graphic designer, a writer, a public servant, a retire- Author: Wallace, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048604
- 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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Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the celebrated author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better.
A razor-sharp polemic which offers an entirely new understanding o- Author: Ehrenreich, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 16 2019
- ISBN10: 1455535893
- Language: English
