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
A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery
You Won't Believe Me
The Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History
A Shot in the Arm!
World Made of Glass
The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage
Morning Sun in Wuhan
The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease
Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic
Child Zero
How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
American Murderer
Viral: The Search For the Origin Of COVID-19
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
The Ghost Map
Fever 1793
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
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
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverThe Jungle Books by Rudyard KiplingGorillas in the Mist by Dian FosseyOut of Africa by Isak DinesenHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Rainforests and Jungles of the World
386 books — 109 voters
Coming To Terms With Type 1 Diabetes by Debbie  YoungThe Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases  by Paul OlaNeedles by Andie DominickBreakthrough by Thea CooperThe Sudden Star by Pamela Sargent
Diabetes
70 books — 45 voters

Stiff by Mary RoachThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Medicine and Literature
1,859 books — 2,017 voters

Stiff by Mary RoachThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha MukherjeeBonk by Mary RoachGulp by Mary Roach
Modern Medical Science (nonfiction)
251 books — 120 voters
Accidental Demons by Clare EdgeI'm Squirrely! by Brenda LochingerWhen Will I Feel Better? by Robin Prince MonroeTaking Diabetes to School by Kim GosselinHow to Be Human by Florida Frenz
Books for Children with Chronic Illness
136 books — 67 voters


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