Infectious Diseases category: 1139 books
Natural Alternatives to Antibiotics – Revised and Updated
How to treat infections without antibiotics
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2003
‘A long-awaited book that answers many questions.’
Jan de Vries
Antibiotics were developed in the 1940s. Then, they were hailed as a huge breakthrough in the treatment of bacterial infections. Today, they are the most commonly prescribed drugs worldwide. But massive over-prescription of...
by David Quammen
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
“A frightening and fascinating masterpiece of science reporting that reads like a detective story.” —Walter Isaacson
In 1976 a deadly virus emerged from the Congo forest. As swiftly as it came, it disappeared, leaving no trace. Over the four decades since, Ebola has emerged sporadically,...
Seeking the Cure Unknown
A Report from the Lymelands
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
The brand-new final chapter from the revised edition of CURE UNKNOWN, the definitive, award-winning investigation into Lyme disease
Since its original publication in 2008, CURE UNKNOWN has become known as a nuanced, groundbreaking picture of the intense controversy and crippling uncertainty...
by C. Gale Perkins
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
The Babys Cross is a memoir about a tuberculosis survivor named Gale, a young girl who fought many obstacles in her life. She was born prematurely and with the help of a neighbor, she survived. At age two, a fall down the stairs was to take her life in a direction that seemed almost impossible to endure...
Pale Rider
The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
In 1918, the Italian-Americans of New York, the Yupik of Alaska and the Persians of Mashed had almost nothing in common except for a virus--one that triggered the worst pandemic of modern times and had a decisive effect on the history of the twentieth century.
The Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was...
Keep Out of Reach of Children
Reyes Syndrome, Aspirin, and the Politics of Public Health
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
This will be the first book-length history of Reye’s syndrome, and there is nothing else outside of the professional medical literature that chronicles even part of the story that made headlines and caused panic in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
Keep Out of Reach of Children addresses many...
Getting to Zero
A Doctor and a Diplomat on the Ebola Frontline
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
A gripping, first-hand account of the harrowing decisions and uplifting encounters experienced by the authors in the midst of a humanitarian crisis.
Co-author Oliver Johnson received an OBE following his work in Sierra Leone, with both authors being well connected in NGO and global health...
by Leon Gordis, MD, MPH
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Epidemiology, byaward-winning educator and epidemiologist Leon Gordis, is a best-selling introduction to this complex science. Dr. Gordis leverages his vast experience teaching this subject in the classroom to introduce the basic principles and concepts of epidemiology in a clear, uniquely memorable...
Demon in My Blood
My Fight with Hep C - and a Miracle Cure (Hepatitis C)
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Until recently, hepatitis C-which infects 170 million people throughout the world-was always fatal. But today there is finally a remarkable cure.
Elizabeth Rains describes how she was likely infected with hepatitis C during her wild hippie days, how she was diagnosed more than four decades...
Dread
How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Deaths from epidemic disease are rare in the developed world, yet in our technically and medically advanced society, an ever-present risk of disease has created an industry out of fear.
As Philip Alcabes persuasively argues in Dread, our anxieties about epidemics often stray from the facts...
by Constantine N. Nana PhD
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
The Zaire Ebola virus appeared out of nowhere and then disappeared into thin air after killing scores of humans in West Africa. In The Ebola Outbreak in West Africa, author Constantine N. Nana attempts to better understand the outbreak and answer the question: why?
Through meticulous research,...
The Great Plague
A People's History
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
In this intimate history of the extraordinary Black Plague pandemic that swept through the British Isles in 1665, Evelyn Lord focuses on the plague’s effects on smaller towns, where every death was a singular blow affecting the entire community. Lord’s fascinating reconstruction of life during plague...
Epidemic
Ebola and the Global Scramble to Prevent the Next Killer Outbreak
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Wilson examines the global response to a deadly outbreak and exposes the current holes in a global health system that is unprepared to handle the next big outbreak.
The heartbreaking story of the devastation wrought in three desperately poor countries — and the heart stopping truth about how close the world came to a global pandemic.
Quick Creole for Medical Personnel
Hope Literature, Haitian Creole Medical Phrasebook
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2018
Dorothy Shumans is a vibrant, devoted follower of Christ, mother of four and grandmother of nine who has served as Director of House of Hope Ministries, Inc. in Haiti for many years. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Education with certifications in Elementary Education, vocal music, Vocational...