Category - Medical
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The Real AIDS Epidemic: How the Tragic HIV Mistake Threatens Us All
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Four decades after And the Band Played On created an image of the AIDS epidemic that has survived in the public consciousness to this very day, m...
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The Kissing Bug
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Growing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s, Daisy Hernández believed that her aunt had become deathly ill from eating an apple. No one i...
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Me vs. Us: A Health Divided
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /How can we care so much about health care yet so little about public health?Before Covid-19, public health programs constituted only 2.5 percent of...
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From Oversight to Overkill: Inside the Broken System That Blocks Medical Breakthroughs--And How We Can Fix It
HardcoverOriginal price $32.95Original price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Medical research saves lives-yet all too often, it is thwarted by a review system supposed to safeguard patients that instead creates needless dela...
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From Oversight to Overkill: Inside the Broken System That Blocks Medical Breakthroughs--And How We Can Fix It
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Medical research saves lives-yet all too often, it is thwarted by a review system supposed to safeguard patients that instead creates needless dela...
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Ending Epidemics: A History of Escape from Contagion
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /How scientists saved humanity from the deadliest infectious diseases--and what we can do to prepare ourselves for future epidemics. After the unpre...
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Mountains Beyond Mountains
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - 20th Anniversary Edition, with a new foreword by the author - "[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leav...
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The Human Disease: How We Create Pandemics, from Our Bodies to Our Beliefs
HardcoverOriginal price $32.95Original price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /How the very fact of being human makes us vulnerable to pandemics—and gives us the power to save ourselves.The COVID-19 pandemic won’t be our las...
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Viruses: A Natural History
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A comprehensive and richly illustrated introduction to the world of viruses As parasites that are often hundreds of times smaller than bacteria, vi...
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Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A bold, expert, and actionable map for the re-invention of America's broken mental health care system. "Healing is truly one of the best books ever...
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If I Betray These Words: Moral Injury in Medicine and Why It's So Hard for Clinicians to Put Patients First
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An incredibly important and captivating book for patients, families, and clinicians detailing how we're all hurt by corporate medicine "Wendy Dean ...
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Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780063071292 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Publication Date: 05-07-2024 Pages: 320 Product Dim...
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Bioethics, Healthcare and the Soul
PaperbackOriginal price $52.95 - Original price $52.95Original price $52.95$69.99$69.99 - $69.99Current price $69.99| /This thought-provoking book explores the connections between health, ethics, and soul. It analyzes how and why the soul has been lost from scient...
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Facing the Unseen: The Struggle to Center Mental Health in Medicine
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /From the New York Times bestselling author of Black Man in a White Coat comes a powerful and urgent call to center psychiatry and mental health c...
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Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Fusing science and social justice, renowned public health researcher Dr. Arline T. Geronimus offers an urgent, "monumental" book (Ibram X. Kendi,...
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Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A physician's "provocative" (Boston Globe) and "timely" (Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times Book Review) account of how right-wing backlash policies ...
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Show Me Where It Hurts: Manifesting Illness and Impairment in Graphic Pathography
HardcoverOriginal price $114.95 - Original price $114.95Original price $114.95$141.99$141.99 - $141.99Current price $141.99| /In Show Me Where It Hurts, Monica Chiu argues that graphic pathography-long-form comics by and about subjects who suffer from disease or are impair...
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Collapse and Resiliency: The Inside Story of Liberia's Unprecedented Ebola Response
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /An insider account of how an African public health leader responded to an unprecedented Ebola outbreak.Tolbert Nyenswah, LLB, MPH, DrPH, was the as...
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Who Cares: The Hidden Crisis of Caregiving, and How We Solve It
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An intimate and deeply researched account of the experiences of unpaid caregivers, this "beautiful book" (Rob Delaney) calls for us all to put care...
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Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /"DiGregorio's storytelling is pitch-perfect; narrative and nursing, she understands, come from the same place and both are concerned with a deep un...
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The Nurses: A Year of Secrets, Drama, and Miracles with the Heroes of the Hospital
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A New York Times bestseller. “A funny, intimate, and often jaw-dropping account of life behind the scenes.”—PeopleNurses is the compelling story ...
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Teeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /An NPR Best Book of 2017 that exposes our oral health crisis and the astonishing role that teeth and oral health play in our society In this br...
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Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A physician's "remarkable" account of how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences (Minneapolis Star Tribune) — even for the white v...
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How to Survive a Pandemic
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /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 t...
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