Public Health
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Fair Doses: An Insider’s Story of the Pandemic and the Global Fight for Vaccine Equity
$29.95 Add to cartHow vaccines became the world’s most powerful and widely distributed health intervention, and the inside story of the challenging race to deliver COVID-19 vaccines globally.
Fair Doses is a story of v- Author: Berkley, Seth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0520413164
- Language: English
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Why Black People Die Sooner: What Medicine Gets Wrong about Race and How to Fix It
$28.95 Add to cartThere 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
- Author: Graves, Joseph L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 023121796X
- Language: English
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Sometimes Brilliant: The Impossible Adventure of a Spiritual Seeker and Visionary Physician Who Helped Conquer the Worst Disease in History
$17.99 Add to cartWhen a powerful mystic steps on the hand of a radical young hippie doctor from Detroit, it changes lives and the world. Sometimes Brilliant is the adventures of a philosopher, mystic, hippie, doctor,
- Author: Brilliant, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 26 2017
- ISBN10: 0062049267
- Language: English
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Dr. Koop: The Many Lives of the Surgeon General
$55.33 Add to cartThe first full biography of Reagan’s famous Surgeon General, who put science before politics–cutting smoking by 25%, leading the fight against AIDS, and shocking both liberals and conservatives on ab
- Author: Cameron, Nigel M. de S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 460
- Publish Date: April 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1625348533
- Language: English
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The Formula for Better Health: How to Save Millions of Lives–Including Your Own
$29.95 Add to cartThe formula to stop invisible killers–an approach that can protect your health and prevent the next pandemic–from one of the most influential public health leaders in the US.
In The Formula for Bett- Author: Frieden, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 026205096X
- Language: English
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Outbreak Behind Bars: Spider Bites, Human Rights, and the Unseen Danger to Public Health
$26.95 Add to cartHow the failure to protect incarcerated people from infections has led to preventable outbreaks–and how public health professionals can make a difference.
In late 2019, Dennis Oya’s persistent cough w
- Author: Venters, Homer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1421451433
- Language: English
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The Friends and Family Guide to the Opioid Overdose Epidemic: Including How to Recognize and Treat an Overdose
$19.95 Add to cartA practical and compassionate guide to understanding and addressing the opioid crisis.
The opioid crisis in the United States continues to kill Americans at an alarming rate. Over the past two decades,
- Author: Canning, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1421452847
- Language: English
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Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland
$21.99 Add to cartA physician’s “provocative” (Boston Globe) and “timely” (Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times Book Review) account of how right-wing backlash policies have deadly consequences — even for the white vo… [more below]
- Author: Metzl, Jonathan M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1541604482
- Language: English
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Decluttered: Mindful Organizing for Health, Home, and Beyond
$28.00 Read moreHave you ever wondered why you can’t summon the energy to declutter those piles of clothes on the floor? Do you wish you knew what policies your workplace could offer so everyone can think more clearl
- Author: Albertini, Jenny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 168435224X
- Language: English
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Treating Violence: An Emergency Room Doctor Takes on a Deadly American Epidemic
$27.95 Read moreThe inspiring story of a Black doctor who was deeply affected by the violence that plagued his Brooklyn childhood and later dedicated himself to addressing trauma and violence as public health issues … [more below]
- Author: Gore, Rob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0807020168
- Language: English
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Another World Is Possible: Lessons for America from Around the Globe
$35.00 Add to cartReal-world solutions to America’s thorniest social problems–from housing to retirement to drug addiction–based on original reporting from around the world
A new generation of Americans has declared
- Author: Hakimi Zapata, Natasha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 162097844X
- Language: English
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The Virus and the Vaccine: Contaminated Vaccine, Deadly Cancers, and Government Neglect
$26.00 Add to cartJonas Salk’s polio vaccine is regarded as a veritbale medical miracle, for it largely eradicated one of the most feared diseases of the 20th century. But the story of the vaccine has a dark side, one
- Author: Bookchin, Debbie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0312342721
- Language: English
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Progress Notes: One Year in the Future of Medicine
$47.42 Add to cartA groundbreaking approach to training doctors could transform the future of health care.
For decades, physicians have been trained on the textbook of the body, from the corpse in a cadaver lab to the p
- Author: Nussbaum, Abraham M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1421448947
- Language: English
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Live Forever?: A Curious Scientist’s Guide to Wellness, Ageing and Death
$28.95 Add to cartTime wants you dead. Not just you, but your friends, family, pets – everyone you’ve ever met…
‘A beautifully written book about life and death: busts myths, explores the stories of science and histo- Author: Tregoning, John S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0861549384
- Language: English
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Greed to Do Good: The Untold Story of CDC’s Disastrous War on Opioids: A CDC Physician’s Personal Account
$24.95 Add to cartWhen the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that overdose deaths had quadrupled in ten years, hitting a record high of 90,000 in 2020, opioid researchers around the country exp
- Author: Lebaron, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 9798891380431
- Language: English
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When the City Stopped: Stories from New York’s Essential Workers
$19.95 Add to cartIn When the City Stopped, Robert Snyder tells the story of COVID-19 in the words of ordinary New Yorkers, illuminating the fear and uncertainty of life in the early weeks and months, as well as the so
- Author: Snyder, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1501780387
- Language: English
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The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist’s Warning
$19.95 Add to cartDr. Peter Hotez discusses how the antivaccine movement became a dangerous political campaign promoted by elected officials and amplified by news media, causing thousands of American deaths.
Shortlisted
- Author: Hotez, Peter J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1421451670
- Language: English
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A Living: Working-Class Americans Talk to Their Doctor
$26.99 Add to cartFrom a leading public health expert and physician, and in the style of Studs Terkel’s Working, comes an eye-opening look at what it’s like to have to work physically hard for your money in America . .… [more below]
- Author: Stein, Michael D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 168589190X
- Language: English
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Has Medicine Lost Its Mind?: Why Our Mental Health System Is Failing Us and What Should Be Done to Cure It
$28.95 Add to cartOne in four Americans suffer from mental illness, yet 75% receive no treatment at all – discover why our healthcare system is failing millions and learn how we can fix it.
In this groundbreaking exami
- Author: Smith, Robert C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1493087657
- Language: English
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Rethinking Medications: Truth, Power, and the Drugs You Take
$30.99 Add to cartA leading medical expert explains why too many of the medications Americans take are poorly evaluated, overpriced, or pose unwarranted risks–and what we can do to fix that.
Groundbreaking research ha- Author: Avorn, Jerry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1668052849
- Language: English
