Books of Diseases

  • Legionnaires' Disease
    Legionnaires' Disease
    By I. Edward Alcamo, Jon Zonderman, Laurel Shader

    Discusses the history, symptoms, and treatment of the type of pneumonia known as legionnaires' disease.

  • The Human Body: How We Fail, how We Heal. Parts I & II
    By Anthony A. Goodman

    In this video course, Dr. Anthony Goodman presents a systematic survey of what can go wrong in the human body, why it goes wrong and how the body itself responds, as well as what doctors can do to intervene.

  • The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine: L-O
    By Laurie J. Fundukian

    A one-stop source for medical information on common medical disorders, conditions, tests, treatments, drugs, and other health-related topics, including high-profile diseases.

  • The Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders
    The Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders
    By Laura Avery, Tracie Moy

    A revision of the 2010 edition, this three-volume set is a unique source for information on diseases and conditions of genetic origin.

  • A Field Guide to Germs
    By Wayne Biddle

    Thorough guide to the top 100 potentially unfriendly organisms, microbes, bacteria and germs

  • Why Am I Sick?: What's Really Wrong and how You Solve it Using META-Medicine®
    Why Am I Sick?: What's Really Wrong and how You Solve it Using META-Medicine®
    By Richard Flook

    This book is your answer to ‘Why am I sick?'

  • Inland
    Inland
    By Kat Rosenfield

    "After nine years spent suffocating in the arid expanse of the Midwest, far from the sea where her mother drowned, Callie Morgan and her father are returning to the coast.

  • Living with Epilepsy
    Living with Epilepsy
    By Shirley W. Gray, Shirley Wimbish Gray

    Discusses the causes, diagnosis, and treatment of epilepsy.

  • Off Balance: The American Way of Health: A Pharmacist's Perspective on Why Drugs Don't Work
    Off Balance: The American Way of Health: A Pharmacist's Perspective on Why Drugs Don't Work
    By Leyla Ali

    After reading the book, readers will understand the limitations of their doctors and drugs, and be empowered to search for natural and holistic health care practitioners when treating their own health conditions.

  • Hemophilia
    Hemophilia
    By Beverly Britton

    Discusses the history of the disease, how it is diagnosed, and the treatments available.

  • Hemophilia
    Hemophilia
    By Edward Willett

    Discusses hemophilia, the genetic disease that strikes primarily males, including diagnosis, treatment and current research on its prevention.

  • Malade: entre corps et esprit
    Malade: entre corps et esprit
    By Museum Dr. Guislain

    ... culturele disciplines en via verschillende vormen reflectie op te wekken rond het spanningsveld lichaam en geest . CULTUUR : TUSSEN LICHAAM EN GEEST " Ziek . Tussen lichaam en geest ' is een tentoonstel- ling met publicatie en een ...

  • A History of Population Health: Rise and Fall of Disease in Europe
    A History of Population Health: Rise and Fall of Disease in Europe
    By Johan P. Mackenbach

    In A history of Population Health Johan P. Mackenbach offers a comparative study of trends in 40 specific diseases in Europe and their explanation, focusing on the causes of the spectacular improvements in people's health since the early ...

  • Mosquito: A Natural History of Our Most Persistent and Deadly Foe
    Mosquito: A Natural History of Our Most Persistent and Deadly Foe
    By Michael D'Antonio, Andrew Spielman

    In Mosquito he tells the story of man's struggle to live with the mosquito, from the defeat of Sir Francis Drake's fleet, to the death of thousands of Frenchmen working on the Panama Canal and to the recent panic over the West Nile Virus in ...

  • Depression and Bipolar Disorder
    By Vatsal Thakkar

    For many years, people who suffered from depression or bipolar disorder were stigmatized for their problems.

  • Hot Zone
    Hot Zone
    By Steven Konkoly

    WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS, complete strangers from different walks of life will be forced to join together to survive the LIVING NIGHTMARE that has been unleashed on their city-AND THEIR COUNTRY.This is their story.WELCOME TO THE HOT ZONE!

  • Awakening Nature's Healing Intelligence: Expanding Ayurveda Through the Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health
    Awakening Nature's Healing Intelligence: Expanding Ayurveda Through the Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health
    By Hari Sharma

    This book gives readers an unprecedented insight into the common focus all natural health approaches--the body's inner intelligence.

  • Polio
    Polio
    By Alan Hecht

    Presents an overview of the disease polio, covering its history, transmission, and other aspects, and the lives of vaccine developers Albert Sabin and Jonas Salk.

  • Facing Distress: Distance and Proximity in Times of Illness
    Facing Distress: Distance and Proximity in Times of Illness
    By Els van Dongen, Ruth Kutalek

    The sick individual will question his/her relationship with others and being-in-the-world. The authors of this volume take up issues of distance and proximity in illness and suffering in various situations.

  • Anxiety Disorders

    From obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD) to phobias to generalized anxiety disorder, millions of people suffer from clinical anxiety that affects their everyday lives.