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
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
1,816 books — 2,004 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

The Stand by Stephen KingThe Hot Zone by Richard   PrestonThe Plague by Albert CamusWorld War Z by Max BrooksThe Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
Books for a Pandemic
682 books — 583 voters


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Philip K. Dick
You know what the doctor said to me to cheer me up?" Fat said. "There are worse diseases than cancer." "Did he show you slides?" We both laughed. When you are nearly crazy with grief, you laugh at what you can. ...more
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Dennis Cooper
Now I buy prostitutes instead. It's obvious as soon as I undress they'll take no pleasure earning money from me. But they need the money just like I need to rub my husk against them. And I imagine they think that they've tasted worse and have been tasted by worse. You don't know what it means to feel my chapped, disfigured lips and cock and hands saw away at something so downy. It's inexplicable. That's why it's hard for me to talk about the fact that my disease is so contagious a little peck o ...more
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