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  • The Black Angels

    The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis

    by Maria Smilios ...
    New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nursing shortage.In the pre-antibiotic days when tuberculosis stirred people’s darkest fears, killing one in seven, white nurses at Sea View, New York’s largest municipal hospital, began quitting en masse. Desperate to avert a public health crisis, city officials summoned Black southern nurses, luring them with promises of good pay, a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Taking Turns

    Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371

    by MK Czerwiec ...
    Series series Graphic Medicine
    In 1994, at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the United States, MK Czerwiec took her first nursing job, at Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago, as part of the caregiving staff of HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371. Taking Turns pulls back the curtain on life in the ward.A shining example of excellence in the treatment and care of patients, Unit 371 was a community for thousands of patients and ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Bitten

    The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons

    by Kris Newby ...
    A riveting thriller reminiscent of The Hot Zone, this true story dives into the mystery surrounding one of the most controversial and misdiagnosed conditions of our time—Lyme disease—and of Willy Burgdorfer, the man who discovered the microbe behind it, revealing his secret role in developing bug-borne biological weapons, and raising terrifying questions about the genesis of the epidemic of tick ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • AcciDental Blow Up in Medicine

    Battle Plan for Your Life

    by Simon Yu ...
    AcciDental Blow Up in Medicine: Battle Plan for Your Life offers an in-depth look at how to detect and treat deeply hidden dental problems and parasite/fungal problems which are ‘asymmetric threats’ to health. You hold in your hands the key to a healthier immune system, and a healthier future.In my years as a conventional physician and regional HMO medical director, I experienced the limits of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Viruses

    The Invisible Enemy

    Series series Oxford Landmark Science
    For all our hubris, humans can be felled rapidly by an invisible enemy - viruses. All around us are minute entities that can damage and kill: the millions of viruses that pervade the natural world. Our bodies harbour many that we have long tolerated, but a new one, that jumps into humans from another species, can be lethal - as we have seen most recently with the virus responsible for COVID-19. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Circular Statistics in R

    Circular Statistics in R provides the most comprehensive guide to the analysis of circular data in over a decade. Circular data arise in many scientific contexts whether it be angular directions such as: observed compass directions of departure of radio-collared migratory birds from a release point; bond angles measured in different molecules; wind directions at different times of year at a wind ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Puswhisperer: A Year in the Life of an Infectious Disease Doctor

    by Mark Crislip ...
    Series Book 1 - Puswhisperer
    H1N1. Staph aureus. Traveler's diarrhea. All examples of human interaction with the microbial world, which counts viruses, bacteria, and parasites too numerous to mention. Infectious Disease doctor Mark Crislip has a strange relationship with this world-he spends most of his time trying to kill it, even as he appreciates the vital role microorganisms play in the Earth's ecosystems.Puswhisperer is ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Medical Illuminations

    Using Evidence, Visualization and Statistical Thinking to Improve Healthcare

    by Howard Wainer ...
    Is it sensible to screen for breast or prostate cancer? Should the locations of cancer clusters be made available to the general public? When a doctor wants to perform major surgery and there's no chance for a second opinion, do you agree? The answers to these questions are not as black and white as they may first appear. Medical Illuminations presents thirteen contemporary medical topics, from ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Global Health Ethics

    Edited by Andrew Pinto, Ross Upshur ...
    The field of global health is expanding rapidly. An increasing number of trainees are studying and working with marginalized populations, often within low and middle-income countries. Such endeavours are beset by ethical dilemmas: mitigating power differentials, addressing cultural differences in how health and illness are viewed, and obtaining individual and community consent in research. This ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Get Well Soon

    History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them

    A witty, irreverent tour of history's worst plagues—from the Antonine Plague, to leprosy, to polio—and a celebration of the heroes who fought themIn 1518, in a small town in Alsace, Frau Troffea began dancing and didn’t stop. She danced until she was carried away six days later, and soon thirty-four more villagers joined her. Then more. In a month more than 400 people had been stricken by the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Infectious Madness

    The Surprising Science of How We "Catch" Mental Illness

    A groundbreaking look at the connection between germs and mental illness, and how we can protect ourselves.Is it possible to catch autism or OCD the same way we catch the flu? Can a child's contact with cat litter lead to schizophrenia? In her eye-opening new book, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Harriet Washington reveals that we can in fact "catch" mental illness. In Infectious ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Babys Cross: A Tuberculosis Survivors Memoir

    The Babys Cross is a memoir about a tuberculosis survivor named Gale, a young girl who fought many obstacles in her life. She was born prematurely and with the help of a neighbor, she survived. At age two, a fall down the stairs was to take her life in a direction that seemed almost impossible to endure at the time. The losses in her life were many, including her mother, many other family ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Premonition: A Pandemic Story

    by Michael Lewis ...
    **New York Times BestsellerFor those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about.**Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortunately, there are those among us who study pandemics and are willing to look unflinchingly at worst-case scenarios. Michael Lewis’s taut and brilliant nonfiction ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Coming Plague

    Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

    A New York Times bestsellerThe definitive account of the infectious diseases threatening humanity by Pulitzer Prize**–winning investigative journalist Laurie Garrett**"Prodigiously researched . . . A frightening vision of the future and a deeply unsettling one." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesAfter decades spent assuming that the conquest of infectious diseas... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Pandemic

    Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Coronaviruses and Beyond

    by Sonia Shah ...
    Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize | A New York Times Editor's Choice“[A] grounded, bracingly intelligent study” —NaturePrizewinning science journalist Sonia Shah presents a startling examination of the pandemics that have ravaged humanity—and shows us how history can prepare us to confront the most serious acute global health emergency of our time.Over the past fifty years, more than ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Great Mortality

    An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time

    by John Kelly ...
    “Powerful, rich with details, moving, humane, and full of important lessons for an age when weapons of mass destruction are loose among us.” — Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic BombThe Great Plague is one of the most compelling events in human history—even more so now, when the notion of plague has never loomed larger as a contemporary public concern.The ... Read more

    $14.49 USD

  • Pale Rider

    The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

    by Laura Spinney ...
    In 1918, the Italian-Americans of New York, the Yupik of Alaska, and the Persians of Mashed had almost nothing in common except for a virus -- one that triggered the worst pandemic of modern times and had a decisive effect on twentieth-century history.The Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time. It infected a third of the people on Earth -- from the poorest ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • How to Survive a Pandemic

    A vital, timely text on the viruses that cause pandemics and how to face them, by the New York Times bestselling author of How Not to Die.From tuberculosis to bird flu and HIV to coronavirus, these infectious diseases share a common origin story: human interaction with animals. Otherwise known as zoonotic diseases for their passage from animals to humans, these pathogens—both pre-existing ones and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Lab 257

    The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Germ Laboratory

    Strictly off limits to the public, Plum Island is home to virginal beaches, cliffs, forests, ponds -- and the deadliest germs that have ever roamed the planet. Lab 257 blows the lid off the stunning true nature and checkered history of Plum Island. It shows that the seemingly bucolic island in the shadow of New York City is a ticking biological time bomb that none of us can safely ignore.Based on ... Read more

    $14.49 USD

  • Deadliest Enemy

    Our War Against Killer Germs

    A leading epidemiologist shares his "powerful and necessary" (Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone) stories from the front lines of our war on infectious diseases and explains how to prepare for global epidemics -- featuring a new preface on COVID-19.Unlike natural disasters, whose destruction is concentrated in a limited area over a period of days, and illnesses, which have devastating effects ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Apollo's Arrow

    The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live

    A piercing and scientifically grounded look at the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic and how it will change the way we live—"excellent and timely." (The New Yorker)Apollo's Arrow offers a riveting account of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic as it swept through American society in 2020, and of how the recovery will unfold in the coming years. Drawing on momentous (yet dimly remembered) ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Great Plague

    A People's History

    by Evelyn Lord ...
    Focusing on Britain’s peasants, shopkeepers, and other commoners, this history of the deadly Black Plague is a “local account of the countrywide calamity” (The Times).In this intimate history of the extraordinary Black Plague pandemic that swept through the British Isles in 1665, Evelyn Lord focuses on the plague’s effects on smaller towns, where every death was a singular blow affecting the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Truth About COVID-19

    Exposing The Great Reset, Lockdowns, Vaccine Passports, and the New Normal

    USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly National Bestseller“An eloquent, charismatic, and knowledgeable [critique] of a corrupt system.”****—Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., from the foreword**“Dr. Mercola is a visionary, pioneer, and leader.”**—Del Bigtree, host of The HighwireMultiple New York Times best-selling author Dr. Joseph Mercola and Ronnie Cummins,... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Nightmare Scenario

    Inside the Trump Administration's Response to the Pandemic That Changed History

    Instant #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellerFrom the Washington Post journalists Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta—the definitive account of the Trump administration’s tragic mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the chaos, incompetence, and craven politicization that has led to more than a half million American deaths and counting.Since the day Donald Trump was elected, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD