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 Black Death: A Global History of Humanity's Most Devastating Pandemic
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
The End of My Life Is Killing Me: The Unexpected Joys of a Cancer Slacker
Rebellion 1776
The Black Death: A Global History of Humanity's Most Devastating Pandemic
Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
The Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History
You Won't Believe Me
Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World (Turning Points in Ancient History)
Child Zero
A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History
The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage
American Murderer
Wave: A Novel in Verse
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
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
The Demon in the Freezer
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
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse AndersonThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettChasing Secrets by Gennifer CholdenkoAt the Sign of the Sugared Plum by Mary HooperA Death-Struck Year by Makiia Lucier
YA & Middle Grade Epidemics/Pandemics
249 books — 62 voters
Still Alice by Lisa GenovaTime To Let Go by Christoph FischerThe Carer by Scott  L. NelsonNow I Remember I Love You by Janet AirdPale Highway by Nicholas Conley
Alzheimer's Disease in Fiction
103 books — 144 voters

Joy & Sorrow by Peter Sean DalyThe 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 Dugatkin
Animal Science for Adults
277 books — 93 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

The Stand by Stephen  KingThe Hot Zone by Richard   PrestonWorld War Z by Max BrooksThe Plague by Albert CamusThe Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
Books for a Pandemic
705 books — 579 voters


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Oliver Sacks
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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Chuck Palahniuk
After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.
Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

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