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.

New Releases Tagged "Disease"

Biological War: A Scenario
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
The Black Death: A Global History of Humanity's Most Devastating Pandemic
A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe
Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
Viral: The Search For the Origin Of COVID-19
Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World (Turning Points in Ancient History)
The Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History
The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
American Murderer
A Shot in the Arm!
The Year My Life Went Down the Toilet
King of the Armadillos
Aniana del Mar Jumps In
Wave: A Novel in Verse
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
Fever 1793
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
The Fault in Our Stars
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 Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
The Plague
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
Station Eleven
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Non-fiction Disaster Books
330 books — 333 voters

The Soul of an Octopus by Sy MontgomeryThe Horse by Wendy   WilliamsInside of a Dog by Alexandra HorowitzHow to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog) by Lee Alan DugatkinThe Birds of Pandemonium by Michele Raffin
Animal Science for Adults
278 books — 88 voters
The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienThe Sorrow of War by Bảo NinhThe Full Circle for Mick by Michael G. KramerWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. MooreHuế  1968 by Mark Bowden
Plight of a Nation
1,135 books — 454 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
261 books — 298 voters
Still Alice by Lisa GenovaTime To Let Go by Christoph FischerThe Carer by Scott  L. NelsonNow I Remember I Love You by Janet AirdPale Highway by Nicholas Conley
Alzheimer's Disease in Fiction
104 books — 147 voters


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