• Pox Americana

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    The astonishing, hitherto unknown truths about a disease that transformed the United States at its birthA horrifying epidemic of smallpox was sweeping across the Americas when the American Revolution began, and yet we know almost nothing about it...
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  • And the Band Played On

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    Upon its first publication more than twenty years ago, And the Band Played on was quickly recognized as a masterpiece of investigative reporting.An international bestseller, a nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and made into a critically...
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  • Tell Me about Your Bad Guys

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    Michael Dowdy perceives the world as a poet, one with an anxiety disorder. As a result he has rarely experienced fathering or his relationship with his daughter, A, as a linear narrative. Rather, his impressions of fathering coalesce in encounters with...
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  • Good Inside

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    INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn Instant Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Indie Bestseller“This book is for any parent who has ever struggled under the substantial weight of caregiving—which is to say, all of us. Good Inside is not only a wise...
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  • Rebel Health

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    An action-oriented and radically hopeful field guide to the underground, patient-led revolution for better health and health care.Anyone who has fallen off the conveyer belt of mainstream health care and into the shadowy corners of illness knows what a...
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  • Genetics and the Unsettled Past

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    Our genetic markers have come to be regarded as portals to the past. Analysis of these markers is increasingly used to tell the story of human migration; to investigate and judge issues of social membership and kinship; to rewrite history and collective...
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  • Priced Out

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    From a giant of health care policy, an engaging and enlightening account of why American health care is so expensive―and why it doesn't have to beUwe Reinhardt was a towering figure and moral conscience of health care policy in the United States and...
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  • Scurvy

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    An intellectual history of scurvy in the eighteenth centuryScurvy, a disease often associated with long stretches of maritime travel, generated sensations exceeding the standard of what was normal. Eyes dazzled, skin was morbidly sensitive, emotions...
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  • The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl

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    From a laboratory in wartime Poland comes a fascinating story of anti-Nazi resistance and scientific ingenuity. Few diseases are more gruesome than typhus. Transmitted by body lice, it afflicts the dispossessed―refugees, soldiers, and ghettoized...
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  • Hippocratic Writings

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    This work is a sampling of the Hippocratic Corpus, a collection of ancient Greek medical works. At the beginning, and interspersed throughout, there are discussions on the philosophy of being a physician. There is a large section about how to treat limb...
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  • The Changing Body

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    Humans have become much taller and heavier, and experience healthier and longer lives than ever before in human history. However it is only recently that historians, economists, human biologists and demographers have linked the changing size, shape and...
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  • Addiction and Mood Disorders

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    Millions of individuals diagnosed with severe mental illness also suffer from an equally powerful substance use disorder. If you or someone you love has been diagnosed with dual disorders, this book can help. Addiction and Mood Disorders: A Guide for...
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  • In Covid's Wake

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    An Examination Of The Ways In Which Covid Policies, And The Scientific Debate Which Surrounded It, Were Politicized. In Response To The Covid Pandemic, Public And Private Resources Were Expended On A Vast Scale-truly The Equivalent Of Wartime. 2020 Saw...
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  • Booster Shots

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    A pediatrician and infectious disease specialist warns of the resurgence of measles, the antivaccine movement, and how we can prepare for the next pandemicEvery single child diagnosed with measles represents a system failure—an inexcusable unforced error...
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