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Abstract Narrative structures, though invisible to the naked eye, guide our understanding of pandemics. Like curves and graphs, we can...
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Purchase Play "Vivian Bearing is a professor of English literature known for her intense knowledge of metaphysical poetry, especially the...
Radium Girls
Purchase Play Book Description "In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the...
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
Purchase Book Book Description "In Dr. Sacks’s splendid and sympathetic telling, his patients are deeply human and his tales are studies...
Brotherless Night: A Novel
Purchase Book Book Description "Jaffna, 1981. Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, a vicious civil...
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Purchase Book Book Description "Here are some of Tolstoy's extraordinary short stories, from "The Death of Ivan Ilyich." in a masterly...
Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag
Purchase Book Book Description "Susan Sontag's celebrated essays on cancer and AIDS now available in one volume. In 1978, Sontag wrote...
Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Purchase Book Book Description "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is...
The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine
Purchase Book Book Description "The true structure and workings of the human body are, we casually assume, everywhere the same, a...
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century
Purchase Book Book Description "An incisive, groundbreaking book that examines how a biological concept of race is a myth that promotes...
How Cancer Crossed the Color Line
Purchase Book Book Description "In the course of the 20th century, cancer went from being perceived as a white woman's nemesis to a...
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
Purchase Book Book Description "From the era of slavery to the present day, starting with the earliest encounters between Black Americans...
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