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
Station Eleven
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Diabetes
70 books — 45 voters
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Books for a Pandemic
705 books — 579 voters

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Public Health
207 books — 134 voters
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Modern Science Nonfiction
472 books — 386 voters

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Nonfiction Books about Plants
438 books — 149 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
355 books — 163 voters


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