NY Times bestselling author Joseph Alton, MD provides a doctor's perspective to the Zika Virus in his latest book, "The Zika Virus Handbook: A doctor tells you all you need to know about the pandemic". Zika virus is an inf...

Allie Cashel has suffered from chronic Lyme disease for sixteen years—but much of the medical community refuses to recognize her symptoms as the result of infectious disease. In Suffering the Silence: Chronic Lyme Disease in an Age ...

A nice illustrated edition of this classic to commemorate the 300th anniversary of its publication. This book is very relavant in the face of the 2020 world-wide pandemic. Our version has all the original text and 18 illustrations and...

People live in a sea of viruses. All creatures are host to these small organisms, which are made up of small bits of genetic information. Viruses are possessed by a drive to survive, but in order to reproduce they must invade a living...

"Portrays epidemiologists as disease detectives who tirelessly hunt for clues and excel at deductive reasoning. Even Sherlock Holmes would be proud of this astute group of professionals."-BooklistDespite advances in health c...

A leading epidemiologist shares his "powerful and necessary"(Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone)stories from the front lines of our war on infectious diseases and explains how to prepare for global epidemics -- featurin...

"My greatest credential as a physician treating Lyme disease is that I've lived it. I've experienced virtually every symptom of Lyme disease, and in the process, learned exactly what it takes to overcome it." — Bill Rawls,...

A noted neurologist challenges widespread misunderstandings about brain disease and mental illness. Why do we think of mental illness as a brain disease? Is there a difference between a sick mind and a sick brain? How the Brain Los...

This Very Short Introduction explores the historical impact of plague over the centuries, the ways in which it has been interpreted, and the powerful images it has left behind in art and literature. Paul Slack assesses its causes, whi...

"Fascinating...A superb book."--Robert Sapolsky, Stanford professor of neuroscience and neurosurgery and author of Why Zebras Don't Get UlcersWhat causes mental illness? We've long blamed stress, trauma, and brain-chemistry imbalanc...

"[A] quietly terrifying book. . . . It's hard not to feel a bit feverish at times while reading." —The Boston Globe In The Viral Storm, award-winning biologist Nathan Wolfe tells the story of how viruses and human beings ...