Medical - Epidemiology

A meticulously reported, character-driven, unforgettable investigation of a time when nothing was certain and everything was at stake, by the acclaimed sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg "A gripping, deeply moving account of a signal year in modern history, told through the stories of...

An "incredible, humane, insightful" (Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize winner) account of humankind's battles with epidemic disease, and their outsized role in deepening inequality along racial, ethnic, class, and gender lines--in the vein of Medical Apartheid and Killing the Black Body. With clear-eyed research and...

The untold story of Albert Sabin, who developed the oral polio vaccine and became a controversial public health advocate for children worldwideJonas Salk may be the name most associated with the polio vaccine, but it was Albert Sabin's oral vaccine that made the goal...

Do you want to know the proper and safe way to use Amoxicillin? Amoxicillin is an antibiotic belonging to the beta-lactam class, a group of semi-synthetic penicillins. It inhibits bacterial cell function by binding to proteins. Bactericidal killing occurs when the bacteria's cell walls...

Author: Stephen BezruchkaPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 02/19/2026Pages: 250Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.70dISBN: 9781009573702About the AuthorBezruchka, Stephen: - Stephen Bezruchka is Associate Teaching Professor Emeritus in the Department of Health Systems and Population Health at the University of Washington. He is...

A paradigm-shifting exploration of the politics of health around the world, by an award-winning scientist"Zaman's optimism . . . is welcome. . . . His sense of urgency is irresistible." --The Wall Street Journal on Muhammad H. Zaman's The Biography of ResistanceSince the dawn...

Discover Ways to Keep Yourself Healthy, Boost Your Immunity, and Protect Yourself and Your Family from the Global PandemicThere's a pandemic going on, and it's not slowing down. In fact, it's getting worse.The world has never seen anything like Covid-19 before, and there are...

From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks--how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us. Written...

Harvard Public Health Magazine, Best Public Health Books and Journalism of 2022 The definitive social history of tuberculosis, from its origins as a haunting mystery to its modern reemergence that now threatens populations around the world. It killed novelist George Orwell, Eleanor Roosevelt, and...

In 2020, the novel coronavirus gripped the world in a global pandemic and led to the death of hundreds of thousands. The source of the previously unknown virus? Bats. This phenomenon--in which a new pathogen comes to humans from wildlife--is known as spillover, and...

As bad as Covid-19 was, the next pandemic could be worse--but we have the tools to prepare, as revealed in this urgent, gripping warning by the New York Times bestselling authors of Deadliest Enemy. The Covid-19 pandemic was the most devastating natural event of...

A bold new approach for eliminating the world's most dangerous epidemic--using the same epidemic control playbook that rid the world of other contagious diseases. Violence is often regarded as an unavoidable fact of life. The truth is far more hopeful: violence is a disease...

Take control of your and your family's health with The Vaccine Bible, a common-sense, medically sound resource for everyone searching for the straightforward facts about vaccines. For those looking for clear and reliable information on vaccines for themselves and their families, it can feel...

There is a persistent gap in life expectancy between Black people and their white counterparts in the United States. It is a direct result of structural racism within American society and has nothing to do with genetic differences. In past eras, scientific racism sought...