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Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
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Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

By Anne Case , Angus Deaton ,

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Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret
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Waste

By Catherine Coleman Flowers ,

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The Politics of Breastfeeding: When Breasts are Bad for Business
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The Politics of Breastfeeding

By Gabrielle Palmer ,

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Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader
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Partner to the Poor

By Paul Farmer ,

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Civilised by Beasts: Animals and Urban Change in Nineteenth-Century Dublin
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Civilised by Beasts

By Juliana Adelman ,

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We Wear Masks
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We Wear Masks

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Deadly Glow: The Radium Dial Worker Tragedy
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Deadly Glow

By Ross Mullner ,

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Oxford Textbook of Nature and Public Health
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Oxford Textbook of Nature and Public Health

By Matilda van den Bosch (editor) , William Bird (editor) ,

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Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start -- And Why They Don't Go Away
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Stuck

By Heidi J. Larson ,

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Violence: Our Deadly Epidemic and Its Causes
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Violence

By James Gilligan ,

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The Yellow Flag: Quarantine and the British Mediterranean World, 1780–1860
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The Yellow Flag

By Alex Chase-Levenson ,

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The Province of Affliction: Illness and the Making of Early New England
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The Province of Affliction

By Ben Mutschler ,

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The Contagious City: The Politics of Public Health in Early Philadelphia
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The Contagious City

By Simon Finger ,

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Male Sex Work and Society
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Male Sex Work and Society

By Victor Minichiello , John Scott ,

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Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between
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Virology

By Joseph Osmundson ,

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An Empire Transformed: Remolding Bodies and Landscapes in the Restoration Atlantic
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An Empire Transformed

By Kate Luce Mulry ,

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Lyme: The First Epidemic of Climate Change
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Lyme

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Well: What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About Health
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Well

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Why Breastfeeding Grief and Trauma Matter
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Why Breastfeeding Grief and Trauma Matter

By Amy Brown ,

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The Desperate Hours: One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines
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The Desperate Hours

By Marie Brenner ,

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The Merck Veterinary Manual
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The Merck Veterinary Manual

By Susan E. Aiello , Michael A. Moses ,

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The Nazi War on Cancer
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The Nazi War on Cancer

By Robert Proctor ,

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American Murderer: The Parasite that Haunted the South
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American Murderer

By Gail Jarrow ,

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Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
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Dying of Whiteness

By Jonathan M. Metzl ,

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Dig Too Deep
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Dig Too Deep

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The Political Life of an Epidemic: Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in Zimbabwe
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The Political Life of an Epidemic

By Simukai Chigudu ,

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Polio Eradication and Its Discontents: A Historian's Journey Through an International Public Health (UN) Civil War
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Polio Eradication and Its Discontents

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