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
Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History
A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery
Viral: The Search For the Origin Of COVID-19
You Won't Believe Me
World Made of Glass
A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe
The Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History
Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World (Turning Points in Ancient History)
Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic
The Year My Life Went Down the Toilet
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
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 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 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
Accidental Demons by Clare EdgeI'm Squirrely! by Brenda LochingerWhen Will I Feel Better? by Robin Prince MonroeTaking Diabetes to School by Kim GosselinHow to Be Human by Florida Frenz
Books for Children with Chronic Illness
137 books — 68 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 Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne FadimanMountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy KidderThe Hot Zone by Richard   PrestonThe Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett
Public Health
206 books — 133 voters
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
102 books — 137 voters



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