Public Health
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Treating Violence: An Emergency Room Doctor Takes on a Deadly American Epidemic
$27.95 Read moreThe inspiring story of a Black doctor who was deeply affected by the violence that plagued his Brooklyn childhood and later dedicated himself to addressing trauma and violence as public health issues … [more below]
- Author: Gore, Rob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0807020168
- Language: English
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Another World Is Possible: Lessons for America from Around the Globe
$35.00 Add to cartReal-world solutions to America’s thorniest social problems–from housing to retirement to drug addiction–based on original reporting from around the world
A new generation of Americans has declared
- Author: Hakimi Zapata, Natasha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 162097844X
- Language: English
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The Virus and the Vaccine: Contaminated Vaccine, Deadly Cancers, and Government Neglect
$26.00 Add to cartJonas Salk’s polio vaccine is regarded as a veritbale medical miracle, for it largely eradicated one of the most feared diseases of the 20th century. But the story of the vaccine has a dark side, one
- Author: Bookchin, Debbie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0312342721
- Language: English
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Progress Notes: One Year in the Future of Medicine
$47.42 Add to cartA groundbreaking approach to training doctors could transform the future of health care.
For decades, physicians have been trained on the textbook of the body, from the corpse in a cadaver lab to the p
- Author: Nussbaum, Abraham M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1421448947
- Language: English
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Live Forever?: A Curious Scientist’s Guide to Wellness, Ageing and Death
$28.95 Add to cartTime wants you dead. Not just you, but your friends, family, pets – everyone you’ve ever met…
‘A beautifully written book about life and death: busts myths, explores the stories of science and histo- Author: Tregoning, John S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0861549384
- Language: English
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Greed to Do Good: The Untold Story of CDC’s Disastrous War on Opioids: A CDC Physician’s Personal Account
$24.95 Add to cartWhen the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that overdose deaths had quadrupled in ten years, hitting a record high of 90,000 in 2020, opioid researchers around the country exp
- Author: Lebaron, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 9798891380431
- Language: English
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When the City Stopped: Stories from New York’s Essential Workers
$19.95 Add to cartIn When the City Stopped, Robert Snyder tells the story of COVID-19 in the words of ordinary New Yorkers, illuminating the fear and uncertainty of life in the early weeks and months, as well as the so
- Author: Snyder, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1501780387
- Language: English
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The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist’s Warning
$19.95 Add to cartDr. Peter Hotez discusses how the antivaccine movement became a dangerous political campaign promoted by elected officials and amplified by news media, causing thousands of American deaths.
Shortlisted
- Author: Hotez, Peter J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1421451670
- Language: English
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A Living: Working-Class Americans Talk to Their Doctor
$26.99 Add to cartFrom a leading public health expert and physician, and in the style of Studs Terkel’s Working, comes an eye-opening look at what it’s like to have to work physically hard for your money in America . .… [more below]
- Author: Stein, Michael D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 168589190X
- Language: English
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Has Medicine Lost Its Mind?: Why Our Mental Health System Is Failing Us and What Should Be Done to Cure It
$28.95 Add to cartOne in four Americans suffer from mental illness, yet 75% receive no treatment at all – discover why our healthcare system is failing millions and learn how we can fix it.
In this groundbreaking exami
- Author: Smith, Robert C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1493087657
- Language: English
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Rethinking Medications: Truth, Power, and the Drugs You Take
$30.99 Add to cartA leading medical expert explains why too many of the medications Americans take are poorly evaluated, overpriced, or pose unwarranted risks–and what we can do to fix that.
Groundbreaking research ha- Author: Avorn, Jerry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1668052849
- Language: English
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Way Home: Journeys Through Homelessness
$29.95 Add to cartCan one city’s solutions to homelessness help the United States face the issue nationally?
The United States grapples with a solution for the unhoused by employing a patchwork of uneven rhetoric and po
- Author: Ensign, Josephine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1421450232
- Language: English
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Worth a Shot?: Secrets of the Clinical Trial Participant Who Inspired a Global Movement–Brianne Dressen’s Story
$32.99 Add to cartCommunity-minded Utah mom and preschool teacher Brianne Dressen wanted to play her part in helping to end the pandemic that shut down the world in 2020. What better way than to roll up her sleeves and… [more below]
- Author: Pover, Caroline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1510783466
- Language: English
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The Medical-Pharmaceutical Killing Machine: Facing Facts Could Save Your Life
$32.99 Add to cartMedical and pharmaceutical history is replete with examples of dangerous interventions that have poisoned, injured, or killed. However, events since 2020 have attracted attention as never before to me… [more below]
- Author: Children’s Health Defense
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1648211291
- Language: English
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Suicide: Understanding and Ending a National Tragedy
$29.95 Add to cartAn urgent call to action on a rising–and preventable–trend.
Each year in the United States alone, nearly 50,000 individuals die by suicide; more than 1.2 million others attempt it. John Bateson, form
- Author: Bateson, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1421449412
- Language: English
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The Science of Weed: An Indispensable Guide to Cannabis
$39.95 Add to cartA witty, engaging, in-depth, and evidence-based look at how cannabis affects our brains.
Pot, weed, ganja, chronic: whatever you call it, cannabis can profoundly affect the human body and brain. In The
- Author: Pearlson, Godfrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1421449951
- Language: English
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Beating Melanoma: The Ultimate Patient Resource
$22.95 Add to cartNow completely updated! The essential guide for people with melanoma.
In Beating Melanoma, world-renowned skin cancer expert Dr. Steven Q. Wang provides an indispensable guide for those diagnosed with
- Series: Johns Hopkins Press Health Books (Paperback)
- Author: Wang, Steven Q.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 142144948X
- Language: English
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Peripheral Neuropathy: What It Is and What You Can Do to Feel Better
$23.95 Add to cartHealing and symptom relief from an expert in treating this debilitating and dangerous condition.
Nearly one in fifteen people–that’s 20 million people in the United States–suffers from peripheral neu
- Series: Johns Hopkins Press Health Books (Paperback)
- Author: Wiesman, Janice F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 1421420856
- Language: English
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Too Young for Cancer: One Woman’s Battle for a Diagnosis and a Fighting Chance
$29.99 Read moreA stage IV cancer survivor reflects on treatment and recovery in this inspiring memoir that reveals the biases of the healthcare system–and the power of community.
New Year’s Eve 2020 was supposed t- Author: Coleman, Katie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1639109447
- Language: English
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Take Control of Your Drinking: A Practical Guide to Alcohol Moderation, Sobriety, and When to Get Professional Help
$18.95 Read moreAccepting that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to controlling drinking, the latest edition of this bestselling book will help you assess your drinking and determine whether moderation or abstin
- Series: Johns Hopkins Press Health Books (Paperback)
- Author: Levy, Michael S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1421439441
- Language: English
