Social Science - Disease & Health Issues
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The Kissing BugWinner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award National Book Foundation Science + Literature Selection Finalist for New American Voices Award and Lammy Award for Bisexual Nonfiction A TIME, NPR, Chicago Public Library, Science for the People, WYNC, WBUR Radio Boston, and The Stacks Podcast...
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The Omnivore's Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals, and OurselvesOffers the most powerful case yet for ending our exploitation of animals for food Millions of Americans see themselves as "conflicted omnivores," worrying about the ethical and environmental implications of their choice to eat animals. Yet their attempts to justify their choices only obscure...
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The Resilience Myth: New Thinking on Grit, Strength, and Growth After TraumaA "vital, life-saving must-read" (Nora McInerny, author of Bad Vibes Only) manifesto for communal resilience based on in-depth investigations into history, social science, and psychology, from the bestselling author of Rage Becomes Her. We are often urged to rely only on ourselves for strength,...
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The Road to Medicare for All: A Call to ActionThe United States spends substantially more on health care than other wealthy nations, yet it has poorer health outcomes. The Road to Medicare for All: A Call to Action analyzes the dysfunction of the current system and sets forth the solution.With the question of...
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The Social Genome: The New Science of Nature and NurtureFor more than 150 years, the question of nature versus nurture has been one of the most contentious issues in the human sciences. On the one side are "blank-slaters," who believe we are mainly shaped by our environment. On the other side are "hereditarians,"...
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two CulturesNow with a new Afterword from the author Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the...
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The Surgeon's Battle: How Medicine Won the Vicksburg Campaign and Changed the Civil WarBetween May 1 and May 22, 1863, Union soldiers marched nearly 200 miles through the hot, humid countryside to assault and capture the fortified city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. Upon its arrival, the army laid siege to the city for a grueling forty-seven days. Disease...
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The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 PEN/JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION****LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDALS FOR EXCELLENCE****WINNER OF THE 2022 POZ AWARD FOR BEST IN LITERATURE***Sarah Schulman named The Viral Underclass one of the Best Books of the 21st Century for the New...
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They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals"Riveting . . . Blake's deft chronicle of one of the greatest moral scandals of our time [is] a book that none of us can afford to miss."--The Washington Post A gripping investigation of the chemical industry's decades-long campaign to hide the dangers of...
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Todo Es Tuberculosis. La Historia de la Infección Más Mortal de la Humanidad / Everything Is Tuberculosis#1 en la lista de bestsellers del New York Times #1 en la lista de bestsellers del Washington Post#1 en la lista de los libreros independientes USA Today Bestseller John Green, autor galardonado y apasionado defensor de la reforma sanitaria global, narra una historia...
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Toxic Legacy: How the Weedkiller Glyphosate Is Destroying Our Health and the EnvironmentNamed a "Best Book of the Year" by Kirkus Reviews"Urgent and eye-opening, the book serves as a loud-and-clear alarm."―The Boston GlobeNamed an "Outstanding Academic Title" by Choice From an MIT scientist, mounting evidence that the active ingredient in the world's most commonly used weedkiller...
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Undoing Drugs: How Harm Reduction Is Changing the Future of Drugs and AddictionFrom "one of the bravest, smartest writers about addiction anywhere" (Johann Hari, New York Times bestselling author)--the untold story of harm reduction, a surprisingly simple idea with enormous power Drug overdoses now kill more Americans annually than guns, cars or breast cancer. But we...
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Valley So Low: One Lawyer's Fight for Justice in the Wake of America's Great Coal CatastropheA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A riveting courtroom drama about the victims of one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history--and the country lawyer determined to challenge the notion that, in America, justice can be bought "[A] tense investigative chronicle." --The New...
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VAX Facts: What to Consider Before Vaccinating at All Ages & Stages of LifeVax Facts is a one-stop-shop for all the information parents and guardians need to make an informed choice about childhood vaccinations.The challenge for most who are wrestling with whether to give a vaccine is a lack of understanding about what information they really need...
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We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body's Bioelectric Code, and What the Future HoldsNow with an afterword exclusive to the paperback edition: science journalist Sally Adee breaks open the field of bioelectricity--the electric currents that run through our bodies and every living thing--its misunderstood history, and why new discoveries will lead to new ways around antibiotic resistance,...
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Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust SocietyFusing science and social justice, renowned public health researcher Dr. Arline T. Geronimus offers an urgent, "monumental" book (Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped from the Beginning) exploring the ways in which systemic injustice erodes the health of marginalized people. America has woken up...
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What Are Drugs For?: An Exploration of Stolen FireWe live in a pharmaceutical age where drugs contribute to and are a potential solution for many personal and societal problems. But instead of serious ethical inquiry into these substances' role in our lives, we've embraced harmful political and cultural trends of wholesale rejection...
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What Is It Like to Be an Addict?: Understanding Substance AbuseA powerful and important exploration of how addiction functions on social, psychological and biological levels, integrated with the experience of being an addict, from an acclaimed philosopher and former addict. What is addiction? Theories about what kind of thing addiction is are sharply divided...
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What Went Wrong: America's Covid Response and Lessons for the FutureWe thought we were a nation ready for any crisis. Covid showed us how much we have yet to learn.America's response to Covid cost too many lives, set our children back in their education, and forever damaged our trust in our government's ability to...
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Why Live: How Suicide Becomes an EpidemicWhat causes suicide epidemics--and how can we prevent them? Many suicides are caused by biological mental illness, but sometimes the suicide rate of a particular group jumps--two-, three-, or even ten-fold--in a short time, behaving like an epidemic. Suicide epidemics unfold more slowly than...
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