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.

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
You Won't Believe Me
Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
No Matter the Distance
A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery
The Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History
Viral: The Search For the Origin Of COVID-19
The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage
Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History
Lucy in the Sky
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World (Turning Points in Ancient History)
Child Zero
How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic
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
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
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 Plague
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
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
Still Alice by Lisa GenovaTime To Let Go by Christoph FischerNow I Remember I Love You by Janet AirdPale Highway by Nicholas ConleyBest Years of your Life by Jen Craven
Alzheimer's Disease in Fiction
101 books — 134 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
270 books — 78 voters

Gone by Michael  GrantLife As We Knew It by Susan Beth PfefferThe Stand by Stephen  KingThe Road by Cormac McCarthyAshfall by Mike Mullin
Apocalypse Challenge
110 books — 187 voters

The Cost of Hope by Amanda   BennettCancer Schmancer by Fran DrescherIt's Probably Nothing...* by Micki MyersCrazy Sexy Cancer Tips by Kris CarrThe Cancer Survivors Club by Chris Geiger
Funny Books About Cancer
35 books — 43 voters


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