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"

The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
American Murderer
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
Child Zero
Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
Playing the Cards You're Dealt (Scholastic Gold)
Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
World Made of Glass
How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons
Aniana del Mar Jumps In
Wave
The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease
Pandemic 1918: The Story of the Deadliest Influenza in History
Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between
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
Fever 1793
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
The Fault in Our Stars
The Demon in the Freezer
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
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 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
Year of Wonders
The Hot Zone by Richard   PrestonThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootStation Eleven by Emily St. John MandelSpillover by David QuammenThe Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
These Books Will Kill You
337 books — 295 voters

Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse AndersonThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettAt the Sign of the Sugared Plum by Mary HooperA Death-Struck Year by Makiia LucierChasing Secrets by Gennifer Choldenko
YA & Middle Grade Epidemics/Pandemics
234 books — 58 voters
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Funny Books About Cancer
34 books — 43 voters

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Diabetes
64 books — 40 voters
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Hot Zone by Richard   PrestonThe Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonThe Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha MukherjeeThe Great Influenza by John M. Barry
History of Medicine
347 books — 153 voters


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