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.

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The Black Death: A Global History of Humanity's Most Devastating Pandemic
The End of My Life Is Killing Me: The Unexpected Joys of a Cancer Slacker
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
The Black Death: A Global History of Humanity's Most Devastating Pandemic
Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
You Won't Believe Me
Lucy in the Sky
A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery
The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage
Child Zero
Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World (Turning Points in Ancient History)
The Year My Life Went Down the Toilet
How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
The Ghost Map
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
Fever 1793
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 Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
The Demon in the Freezer
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
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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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