Medical - Public Health

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Dying of Whiteness

Jonathan M. Metzl

A physician's "remarkable" account of how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences (Minneapolis Star Tribune) -- even for the white voters they promise to help. In election after election, conservative white Am...

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Published: May 2020

Climate Change: What Everyone Needs t...

Joseph Romm

"This is, for my money, the best single-source primer on the state of climate change." - New York Magazine"The right book at the right time: accessible, comprehensive, unflinching, humane." - The Daily Beast"A must-read." - The Guardi...

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Published: Apr 2016

Moving Mountains: A Socratic Challeng...

Michel Accad

Medicine has become increasingly depersonalized. Patients complain of being treated like numbers. Doctors resent being cogs in a complex healthcare system. Yet enthusiasm remains within the high towers of academia, the halls of govern...

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Published: Jan 2017

Can the Obesity Crisis Be Reversed? (...

Rexford S. Ahima

How can we work together to understand the rise of obesity and reverse its related diseases and societal impacts? Obesity is a complex condition that increases a person's risk for developing diabetes, heart disease, cancer, dementia,...

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Published: Dec 2021

To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Spea...

Paul Farmer

Doctor and social activist Paul Farmer shares a collection of charismatic short speeches that aims to inspire the next generation. One of the most passionate and influential voices for global health equity and social justice, Farmer e...

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Published: Oct 2019

The COVID-19 Catastrophe: What's Gone...

Richard Horton

This expanded, updated, and completely revised edition of The COVID-19 Catastrophe is the authoritative guide to a global health crisis that has consumed the world. Richard Horton, editor of the medical journal The Lancet, scrutinises...

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Published: Feb 2021

Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel's Autis...

Peter J. Hotez

Internationally renowned medical scientist, frequent media contributor, and autism dad Dr. Peter J. Hotez explains why vaccines do not cause autism. In 1994, Peter J. Hotez's nineteen-month-old daughter, Rachel, was diagnosed with au...

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Published: Jan 2021

Inspiring True Stories of Everyday He...

Unapologetic Voice House

Put yourself in the shoes of doctors, nurses and flight attendants with Inspiring True Stories of Everyday Heroes: From the Frontlines of #COVID-19. These stories were collected to give essential workers a place to share their exp...

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Published: Feb 2021

Antibiotics: What Everyone Needs to K...

Mary E. Wilson

Virtually everyone has taken antibiotics. They can be lifesavers -- and they can be useless. What are they? How are they used? And what happens as the effectiveness of antibiotics continues to decline? Antibiotics: What Everyone Needs...

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Published: Jan 2019
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