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Michelle A Williams
The Cure for Everything

The inspiring story of how we overcame a history of infectious disease, poisonous environments, and early death and unlocked an explosion in human potential---and a vision for the work ahead to optimize h…

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Rachel Somerstein
Invisible Labor

An incisive yet personal look at the science and history of the most common surgery performed in America---the cesarean section---and an exposé on the disturbing state of maternal medical careWhen Rachel …

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Caroline Crampton
A Body Made of Glass

"Crampton has drawn from her own experiences with health anxiety to write a revelatory exploration of hypochondria--a condition that, though often suffered silently, is widespread and rising. She ...…

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Geeta Nayyar
Dead Wrong

Save lives and improve public health by countering misinformationIn Dead Wrong: Diagnosing and Treating Healthcare's Misinformation Illness, a team of health misinformation experts delivers a first-hand a…

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Jerry Avorn
Rethinking Medications

Suddenly, everything seems up for grabs about the medicines we take: Do they really work as advertised? Do some of them have dangerous, undisclosed side effects? Why are they so expensive, even unaffordab…

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M K Thekkumkattil
The Sexuality of Care

A unique, conversation-starting essay collection about critical care work, kink practices, and how one might transform the other.M. K. Thekkumkattil is an ICU nurse looking for ways to show real care for …

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Susan Sontag
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

"Sontag's celebrated essays on cancer and AIDS available in one volume. Sontag destigmatizes both illnesses by removing the metaphorical thinking that has made these among the most feared diseases of…

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Hannah Wunsch
The Autumn Ghost

"A perfectly pitched medical mystery that will captivate you from page one."---Wes Ely, MD, MPH, author of Every Deep-Drawn Breath, winner of the 2022 Christopher Award for Literature.A suspense…

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When Roe Fell

In the aftermath of the fall of Roe , this volume offers readers the opportunity to reorient scholarship and understanding about abortion, recognizing what was already true before Roe was overturned and h…

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Jerry Avorn
Rethinking Medications

Suddenly, everything seems up for grabs about the medicines we take: Do they really work as advertised? Do some of them have dangerous, undisclosed side effects? Why are they so expensive, even unaffordab…

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The Health Humanities in German Studies

The first full-length study to bring together the fields of Health Humanities and German studies, this book features contributions from a range of key scholars and provides an overview of the latest work …

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Allison J Applebaum
Stand by Me

"Compassionate, groundbreaking, and urgently needed, Stand By Me provides caregivers with new ways to juggle the responsibilities and emotional ups and downs of caregiving. As the founder of the only…

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Elizabeth Comen
All in Her Head

Finalist for the 2025 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardUSA Today Bestseller"All in Her Head accomplishes a remarkable feat of storytelling. By combining essential medical histories about…

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Joe William Trotter Jr
From Enslavement to Covid-19

During the COVID- 9 pandemic, commentators opined that the high concentration of African Americans in dangerous and unsafe work and living environments exposed them to the virus at higher and more deadly …

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Seminal

The complexities and controversies at the nexus of sperm, health, and politics In Seminal , experts from across the social sciences, humanities, law, and medicine offer a kaleidoscopic view of the relatio…

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Gary Slutkin
The End of Violence

A paradigm-shifting new approach to ending the epidemic of violence in our lifetime, using the same epidemic control playbook that has rid the world of other contagious diseases.Violence is often describe…

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Gary Slutkin
The End of Violence

A paradigm-shifting new approach to ending the epidemic of violence in our lifetime, using the same epidemic control playbook that has rid the world of other contagious diseases.Violence is often describe…

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Molly Bradley Schiffer
The Body-Based Obsessions Workbook

Evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), mindfulness, and self-compassion skills to help you break free from obsessions about your body and mind.If you have anxiety or obsessive-compulsive disor…

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Henry Smith Williams
Drug Addicts Are Human Beings

The War on Drugs is now a century old. The question isn't why aren't we winning, it's why are we fighting? Dr. Henry Smith Williams asked that question in his 1938 cult-classic book, Drug Addicts Are Huma…

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Eric Klinenberg
2020

A meticulously reported, character-driven, unforgettable investigation of a time when nothing was certain and everything was at stake, by the acclaimed sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg …

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