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  • Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

    **New York Times BestsellerInternational BestsellerAn Economist Best Book of 2023 • One of Smithsonian's Ten Best Books About Food of 2023 • A Financial Times Best Food and Drink Book of 2023 • A New Yorker Best Books of 2023 So Far • A Goodreads Choice Awards 2023 Nominee • An NPR 2023 "Books We Love" PickA manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body.**It’s not you, it ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Why We Get Sick

    The New Science of Darwinian Medicine

    The next time you get sick, consider this before picking up the aspirin: your body may be doing exactly what it's supposed to. In this ground-breaking book, two pioneers of the science of Darwinian medicine argue that illness as well as the factors that predispose us toward it are subject to the same laws of natural selection that otherwise make our bodies such miracles of design. Among the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Master Manipulator

    The Explosive True Story of Fraud, Embezzlement, and Government Betrayal at the CDC

    The explosive true story of fraud, embezzlement, and government betrayal.In 2000, the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) carried out a secret mission to bury, skew, and manipulate data in six vaccine safety studies, in a coordinated effort to control the message that vaccines do not cause autism.” They did so via secret meetings and backtesting health-care data. The CDC invested tens of millions ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Good Caregiver

    A One-of-a-Kind Compassionate Resource for Anyone Caring for an Aging Loved One

    A survival guide with an insider's perspective, for the millions of unprepared caregivers of aging loved ones.As Americans are living longer, an unprecedented number of people now require long-term care during their last years. More than 15 million adult children now care for their elderly parents, and unsuspecting caregivers are usually unprepared financially, emotionally, and practically for the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Food Junkies

    The Truth About Food Addiction

    by Vera Tarman ...
    A fact-filled guide to coping with compulsive overeating problems by an experienced addictions doctor who draws on many patients’ stories of recovery.Overeating, binge eating, obesity, anorexia, and bulimia: Food Junkies tackles the complex, poorly understood issue of food addiction from the perspectives of a medical researcher and dozens of survivors. What exactly is food addiction? Is it ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Food Junkies

    Recovery from Food Addiction

    by Vera Tarman ...
    A fact-filled guide to coping with compulsive overeating problems by an experienced addictions doctor who draws on many patients’ stories of recovery.Overeating, binge eating, obesity, anorexia, and bulimia — Food Junkies tackles the complex, poorly understood issue of food addiction from the perspective of a medical researcher and dozens of survivors. What exactly is food addiction? Is it ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Patient Advocate Handbook

    How to Find and Use Your Voice in Health Care

    Are you suddenly facing a health challenge and feel fear? Are you overwhelmed and insecure? In The Patient Advocate Handbook, authors Liz Crocker and Claire Crocker offer a practical guide to help you remain calm, focused, and stable while you or a loved one are experiencing a health crisis. Combining Liz’s experiences as a psychologist and Claire’s legal and crisis management skills, they present ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Our Toxic Legacy

    How Lead, Mercury, Arsenic, and Cadmium Harm Our Health

    Lead, mercury, arsenic, and cadmium are major toxic metals. All are environmental pollutants that can inflict harm on humans and other living creatures as well as adversely affect our air, water, soil, and food supply. They can poison not only us but also our progeny developing in the womb. They can break down the body's basic functions. This book describes the unique characteristics of each of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Healing of America

    A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care

    by T. R. Reid ...
    A New York Times Bestseller, with an updated explanation of the 2010 Health Reform BillBringing to bear his talent for explaining complex issues in a clear, engaging way, New York Times bestselling author T. R. Reid visits industrialized democracies around the world--France, Britain, Germany, Japan, and beyond--to provide a revelatory tour of successful, affordable universal health care systems. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Fattening of America

    How The Economy Makes Us Fat, If It Matters, and What To Do About It

    A guide to how America became the fattest nation, and how the food industry and the government keep it that way.In The Fattening of America, renowned health economist Eric Finkelstein, along with business writer Laurie Zuckerman, reveal how the US economy has become the driving force behind our expanding waistlines. Blending theory, research, and engaging personal anecdotes, the authors discuss ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear

    Can refocusing conversations between doctors and their patients lead to better health?Despite modern medicine’s infatuation with high-tech gadgetry, the single most powerful diagnostic tool is the doctor-patient conversation, which can uncover the lion’s share of illnesses. However, what patients say and what doctors hear are often two vastly different things.Patients, anxious to convey their ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Better

    A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

    by Atul Gawande ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in a complex and risk-filled profession**The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • But My Speech Is Fine!

    Newborns. The criminal justice system. Brain surgery. End of life. You might not associate these topics with speech therapy, but that's the beauty of this career- it's surprisingly versatile. Unveiling one of the world's best kept secrets, Lauren Hermann took it upon herself to share real stories about the misunderstood profession of speech-language pathology.But My Speech is Fine is a collection ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Price We Pay

    What Broke American Health Care--and How to Fix It

    New York Times bestsellerBusiness Book of the Year**--Association of Business Journalists**From the New York Times bestselling author comes an eye-opening, urgent look at America's broken health care system--and the people who are saving it**--now with a new Afterword by the author.**"A must-read for every American." --Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief, FORBESOne in fiv... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Genomics and Personalized Medicine

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    In 2001 the Human Genome Project succeeded in mapping the DNA of humans. This landmark accomplishment launched the field of genomics, the integrated study of all the genes in the human body and the related biomedical interventions that can be tailored to benefit a person's health. Today genomics, part of a larger movement toward personalized medicine, is poised to revolutionize health care. By ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Critical Condition

    How Health Care in America Became Big Business--and Bad Medicine

    Award-winning journalists expose the horrific practices within America’s health care system, profiling patients and doctors and offering startling personal stories to illuminate what’s gone wrong.“Every American ought to read this book.”—The Plain DealerTens of millions of people with inadequate or no medical coverage . . . dirty examination and operating rooms in doctors’ offices and hospitals . ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Adult ADD

    The Complete Handbook

    Impulsivity, hyperactivity, inattention and distractability—words that ring a bell? For the estimated six million Americans suffering from Attention Deficit Disorder, such words interfere with daily life! For another 40 million people, such words alone make them think they have ADD.A disorder that doesn't go away on its own, ADD turns untreated children into frustrated adults. And, adults who have ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Seeing through the Smoke

    A Cannabis Specialist Untangles the Truth about Marijuana

    Depending on which doctor you speak with, or which websites you read, cannabis could be an appealing, low-risk medicine – even an aid to wellness – or an insidiously addictive drug rotting the brains of our youth. This dissonance confuses young people, distressed patients, and paralyzes politicians, all while inviting dubious sources of information and resulting in uninformed choices, enhanced ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Fragmented: A Doctor's Quest to Piece Together American Health Care

    An award-winning physician-writer exposes how pervasive cracks in the health care system cost us time, energy, and lives—and how we can fix them.There’s an unspoken assumption when we go to see a doctor: the doctor knows our medical story and is making decisions based on that story. But reality frequently falls short. Medical records vanish when we switch doctors. Critical details of life-saving ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • A Healing Touch

    True Stories of Life, Death, and Hospice

    Edited by Richard Russo ...
    Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Richard Russo and five other Maine authors here prove that the close of life need not be filled with darkness, when hospice help is at hand. These writers recount intensely personal and profoundly moving end-of-life accounts that cover a wide spectrum of human experience. All six authors are donating their royalties to a Maine hospice; Down East will also donate 10 ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Journey's End

    An Investigation of Death and Dying In Modern America

    In the tradition of Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal, this compassionate work helps individuals develop a more accepting view of dying while teaching them what to expect and how to navigate the healthcare system at the end of life.In elderhood, the health care system has a narrow view of how to provide care. It focuses on extending a patient's life at all costs, with an over-reliance on machines and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Health Economics

    An International Perspective

    Health Economics: An International Perspective is the only textbook to provide a truly international, comparative treatment of health economics. Offering an analysis of health systems across borders, the fourth edition of this key text has been updated and revised to take account of changes in a host of countries.This edition features an expanded introduction, providing better grounding for many ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Stir

    My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home

    A national bestseller and winner of a Living Now Book Award, Stir is an exquisite memoir about how food connects us to ourselves, our lives, and each other.At 28, Jessica Fechtor was happily immersed in graduate school and her young marriage, and thinking about starting a family. Then one day, she went for a run and an aneurysm burst in her brain. She nearly died. She lost her sense of smell, the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD $7.99 USD

  • On the Way to Casa Lotus

    Lorena Junco Margain-passionate art collector, devoted wife, and mother-is already shaken after fleeing Mexico with her family while pregnant due to concerns for their safety. Then she learns she has a tumor on her adrenal gland. Having long experienced unexplained symptoms that neither medications nor holistic or Ayurvedic treatments have helped, she embraces the news with tears of relief: with a ... Read more

    $3.99 USD