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
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
Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
You Won't Believe Me
Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World (Turning Points in Ancient History)
Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
Aniana del Mar Jumps In
Child Zero
The Year My Life Went Down the Toilet
The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease
A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe
The Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History
The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage
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 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
Station Eleven
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
104 books — 147 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
359 books — 166 voters

The Botany of Desire by Michael PollanThe Hidden Life of Trees by Peter WohllebenBraiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererLab Girl by Hope JahrenGathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Nonfiction Books about Plants
439 books — 152 voters
Running with Scissors by Augusten BurroughsThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsMe Talk Pretty One Day by David SedarisGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenAngela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Best Strange and Twisted Memoirs
778 books — 1,169 voters


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