Book recommendations

Over the last thirty years of epidemics and pandemics, we learned nearly every lesson needed to stop this coronavirus outbreak in its tracks. We heeded almost none of them. Debora MacKenzie lays out the full story of how and why it happened: the previous viruses that should have prepared us, the shocking public health failures that led to this disaster, and the failure to contain the outbreak.

The war on cancer is a brutal stalemate. We spend $150 billion each year treating the disease, yet -- a few innovations notwithstanding -- a patient with cancer is as likely to die of it today as one was fifty years ago. In "The First Cell", Azra Raza offers a searing account of how both medicine and our society (mis)treat cancer, how we can do better, now why we must.

In "How to Make a Vaccine", Dr. John Rhodes, an immunologist with firsthand experience developing vaccines, unravels the mystery of how vaccines are designed, tested, and produced at scale for global deployment. This book describes in everyday language how the immune system evolved to combat infection, how mutated viruses evade our defenses, and how vaccines do their work.

"Care of People with Diabetes" is a comprehensive clinical manual for nurses, healthcare professionals and students alike, providing an extensive summary of the most up-to-date knowledge in a rapidly developing field, as well as the role of education and self-care in achieving desirable outcomes.

African Americans today continue to suffer disproportionately from heart disease, diabetes, and other health problems. In "Caring for Equality" David McBride chronicles the struggle by African Americans and their white allies to improve poor black health conditions as well as inadequate medical care -- caused by slavery, racism, and discrimination -- since the arrival of African slaves in America.

"Everyday Sports Injuries" is the ultimate self-help guide to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of sports injuries. Covering everything from sprains and strains to fractures, it's packed with all the information and advice you need to get back on track fast and reduce your risk of future problems.

Deftly weaving together his own experiences with the defining discoveries of the past, Jauhar tells the colorful and little-known story of the doctors who risked their careers and the patients who risked their lives to know and heal this most vital organ. "Heart: A History" takes the full measure of our life's most intimate enabler -- the only organ that can move itself.

While influenza is now often thought of as a common but mild disease, it still kills more than thirty thousand people in the United States each year. Dr. Jeremy Brown talks with leading epidemiologists, policy makers, and the researcher who first sequenced the genetic building blocks of the original 1918 virus to offer both a comprehensive history and a road map to protect us from the next outbreak.

"Pediatric Nursing, 2nd Edition", focuses on must-know information that meets the needs of todays students.

Featuring case studies, clinical vignettes, and patient experience videos that allow students to practice and apply psychiatric mental health content, this updated 6th edition prepares nursing leaders to challenge the status quo, partner with patients in the delivery of care, and use the latest evidence in nursing practice.