Disease

A disease is a particular abnormal condition, a disorder of a structure or function, that affects part or all of an organism. The causal study of disease is called pathology. Disease is often construed as a medical condition associated with specific symptoms and signs.

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
The Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History
Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World (Turning Points in Ancient History)
Wave: A Novel in Verse
A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery
The Year My Life Went Down the Toilet
Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History
The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
No Matter the Distance
Child Zero
Lucy in the Sky
How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
American Murderer
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
The Ghost Map
Fever 1793
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
The Fault in Our Stars
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
The Demon in the Freezer
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
The Plague
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerIsaac's Storm by Erik LarsonIn the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel PhilbrickA Night to Remember by Walter LordAlive by Piers Paul Read
Non-fiction Disaster Books
328 books — 328 voters

The Stand by Stephen  KingWorld War Z by Max BrooksThe Andromeda Strain by Michael CrichtonThe Hot Zone by Richard   PrestonStation Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Apocalypse by Epidemic
260 books — 297 voters
The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienThe Sorrow of War by Bảo NinhThe Full Circle for Mick by Michael G. KramerHuế  1968 by Mark BowdenWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. Moore
Plight of a Nation
1,153 books — 453 voters


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In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.
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