Fighting the First Wave, Premonition, Plagues upon the Earth, Unwell Women, and More in Medicine | Academic Best Sellers

Best sellers in medicine, May 2021 to date, as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

May 2021 to date as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

Cover of Fighting The First Wave by Peter Baldwin (blue cover with the title on paper medical masks)1. Fighting the First Wave: Why the Coronavirus Was Tackled So Differently across the Globe.
Baldwin, Peter
Cambridge University Press U.K.
2021. ISBN 9781316518335 $25.00

2. Premonition: A Pandemic Story.
Lewis, Michael
W W Norton
2021. ISBN 9780393881554 $30.00

3. Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History.
Harper, Kyle
Princeton University Press
2021. ISBN 9780691192123 $35.00

4. Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World.
Cleghorn, Elinor
Dutton
2021. ISBN 9780593182956 $28.00

5. Plague Year: America in the Time of COVID.
Wright, Lawrence
Alfred A Knopf
2021. ISBN 9780593320723 $28.00

6. Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender.
Shuster, Stef M
New York University Press
2021. ISBN 9781479845378 $89.00

7. Let the Record Show: A Political History of Act Up New York, 1987-1993
Schulman, Sarah
Jackson Howard
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
2021. ISBN 9780374185138 $40.00

8. Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States.
Pollock, Anne
University of Minnesota Press
2021. ISBN 9781517911713 $88.00

9. Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine.
Downs, Jim
Belknap Harvard
2021. ISBN 9780674971721 $29.95

10. Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine.
Manaugh, Geoff
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
2021. ISBN 9780374126582 $28.00

11. Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease.
Kenny, Charles
Scribner
2021. ISBN 9781982165338 $28.00

12. How to Make a Vaccine: An Essential Guide for COVID-19 and Beyond.
Rhodes, John
University of Chicago Press
2021. ISBN 9780226792514 $15.00

13. Unequal Cities: Structural Racism and the Death Gap in America's Largest Cities
Editor: Maureen R. Benjamins
Johns Hopkins University Press
2021. ISBN 9781421440996 $39.95

14. You Bet Your Life: From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovations.
Offit, Paul A
Basic Books
2021. ISBN 9781541620391 $28.00

15. Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice.
Marya, Rupa
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
2021. ISBN 9780374602512 $30.00

16. Tainted Tap: Flint's Journey from Crisis to Recovery.
Davis, Katrinell M
University of North Carolina Pr
2021. ISBN 9781469662107 $95.00

17. First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine.
Borrell, Brendan
Mariner Books
2021. ISBN 9780358569848 $28.00

18. Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic.
Gottlieb, Scott
HarperCollins
2021. ISBN 9780063080010 $28.99

19. Modern Epidemics: From the Spanish Flu to COVID-19.
Macip, Salvador
Polity Press
2021. ISBN 9781509546565 $74.95

20. American Health Crisis: One Hundred Years of Panic, Planning, and Politics.
Halliwell, Martin
University of California Press
2021. ISBN 9780520379404 $34.95

21. Beyond Medicine: Why European Social Democracies Enjoy Better Health Outcomes Than the United States.
Dutton, Paul V
ILR Cornell
2021. ISBN 9781501754562 $25.95

22. Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer.
Johnson, Steven
Riverhead Books
2021. ISBN 9780525538851 $28.00

23. Black Women's Health: Paths to Wellness for Mothers and Daughters.
Berger, Michele Tracy
New York University Press
2021. ISBN 9781479828524 $89.00

24. Breathing: An Inspired History.
Williams, Edgar
Reaktion Books
2021. ISBN 9781789143621 $27.50

25. Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration's Response to the Pandemic that Changed History.
Abutaleb, Yasmeen
HarperCollins
2021. ISBN 9780063066052 $30.00

26. Care We Dream of: Liberatory and Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health.
Sharman, Zena
Arsenal Pulp Press
2021. ISBN 9781551528601 $19.95

27. Routledge International Handbook of Fat Studies
Editors: Cat Pausé, Sonya Renee Taylor
Routledge
2021. ISBN 9780367502928 $250.00

28. Quarantine Life from Cholera to COVID-19: What Pandemics Teach Us About Parenting, Work, Life, and Communities from the 1700s to Today.
Nixon, Kari
Simon & Schuster
2021. ISBN 9781982172466 $26.99

29. Brain on Youth Sports: The Science, the Myths, and the Future.
Stamm, Julie M
Rowman & Littlefield
2021. ISBN 9781538143193 $30.00

30. Misunderstanding Health: Making Sense of America's Broken Health Care System.
Khanna, Rohit
Johns Hopkins University Press
2021. ISBN 9781421442099 $27.95

31. Global Health Security: A Blueprint for the Future.
Gostin, Lawrence O
Harvard University Press
2021. ISBN 9780674976610 $45.00

32. Economics in One Virus: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning through COVID-19.
Bourne, Ryan A
Cato Institute
2021. ISBN 9781952223068 $19.95

33. Pain and Prejudice: How the Medical System Ignores Women—and What We Can Do About It.
Jackson, Gabrielle
Greystone Books
2021. ISBN 9781771647168 $18.95

34. 'I Know Who Caused COVID-19': Pandemics and Xenophobia.
Xun, Zhou
Reaktion Books
2021. ISBN 9781789145076 $22.50

35. Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity
Mary K. Wakefield
National Academies Press
2021. ISBN 9780309685061 $75.00

36. Feminist Global Health Security.
Wenham, Clare
Oxford University Press Us
2021. ISBN 9780197556931 $74.00

37. Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine.
Zuckerman, Gregory
Portfolio Penguin
2021. ISBN 9780593420393 $30.00

38. Opioid Reckoning: Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State.
Sullivan, Amy C
University of Minnesota Press
2021. ISBN 9781517908638 $25.95

39. Topography of Wellness: How Health and Disease Shaped the American Landscape.
Carr, Sara Jensen
University of Virginia Press
2021. ISBN 9780813946290 $79.50

40. Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance.
Chavez, Karma R
University of Washington Press
2021. ISBN 9780295748962 $99.00

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