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
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverThe Jungle Books by Rudyard KiplingGorillas in the Mist by Dian FosseyOut of Africa by Isak DinesenHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Rainforests and Jungles of the World
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The Hot Zone by Richard   PrestonThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootStation Eleven by Emily St. John MandelSpillover by David QuammenThe Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
These Books Will Kill You
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I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease.
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