Illness As Narrative

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On Learning to Heal: or, What Medicine Doesn't Know (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography)
On Learning to Heal: or, What Medicine Doesn't Know (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography)
by: Ed Cohen
4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating — 787,056 ratings
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The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics
The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics 4.09 avg rating — 622 ratings
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The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays 4.13 avg rating — 19,779 ratings
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Illness (The Art of Living Series)
Illness (The Art of Living Series) 3.94 avg rating — 305 ratings
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The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating 4.15 avg rating — 20,370 ratings
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My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey 3.91 avg rating — 31,795 ratings
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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,368 ratings
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Not One of These Poems Is About You
Not One of These Poems Is About You 4.11 avg rating — 285 ratings
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The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait 3.90 avg rating — 48,379 ratings
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic 4.39 avg rating — 28,867 ratings
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Tender Points
Tender Points 4.48 avg rating — 779 ratings
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On Being Ill
On Being Ill 3.98 avg rating — 2,778 ratings
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The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression 4.19 avg rating — 15,443 ratings
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance 4.21 avg rating — 10,688 ratings
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I've Heard the Vultures Singing: Field Notes on Poetry, Illness, and Nature
I've Heard the Vultures Singing: Field Notes on Poetry, Illness, and Nature 4.11 avg rating — 91 ratings
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The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World 4.12 avg rating — 1,657 ratings
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death 3.98 avg rating — 76,136 ratings
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History 3.98 avg rating — 42,018 ratings
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In-Between Days: A Memoir About Living with Cancer
In-Between Days: A Memoir About Living with Cancer 4.20 avg rating — 760 ratings
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Osler's Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic
Osler's Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic 4.16 avg rating — 118 ratings
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The Cancer Journals
The Cancer Journals 4.42 avg rating — 5,109 ratings
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Pandemic: The Spanish Flu in Australia 1918-20
Pandemic: The Spanish Flu in Australia 1918-20 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System
Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System 4.32 avg rating — 463 ratings
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Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me
Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me 4.02 avg rating — 16,571 ratings
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All in My Head: An Epic Quest to Cure an Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable, and Only Slightly Enlightening Headache
All in My Head: An Epic Quest to Cure an Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable, and Only Slightly Enlightening Headache 3.91 avg rating — 280 ratings
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Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain 3.93 avg rating — 2,651 ratings
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Insane Consequences: How the Mental Health Industry Fails the Mentally Ill
Insane Consequences: How the Mental Health Industry Fails the Mentally Ill 3.67 avg rating — 187 ratings
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Killing Season: A Paramedic's Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic
Killing Season: A Paramedic's Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic 4.21 avg rating — 261 ratings
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In the Land of Pain
In the Land of Pain 3.70 avg rating — 554 ratings
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In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness in America
In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness in America 3.49 avg rating — 433 ratings
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The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness 3.94 avg rating — 8,800 ratings
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Through the Shadowlands: A Science Writer's Odyssey into an Illness Science Doesn't Understand
Through the Shadowlands: A Science Writer's Odyssey into an Illness Science Doesn't Understand 3.97 avg rating — 506 ratings
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The Body Broken
The Body Broken 3.54 avg rating — 213 ratings
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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus 3.72 avg rating — 11,393 ratings
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The Language of Water
The Language of Water 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Pain Studies
Pain Studies 3.52 avg rating — 212 ratings
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I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death 3.99 avg rating — 49,909 ratings
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Between Gardens
Between Gardens 4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Rowing Without Oars: A Memoir of Living and Dying
Rowing Without Oars: A Memoir of Living and Dying 4.02 avg rating — 758 ratings
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Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament
Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament 4.03 avg rating — 5,182 ratings
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The Forsaken Garden: Four Conversations on the Deep Meaning of Environmental Illness
The Forsaken Garden: Four Conversations on the Deep Meaning of Environmental Illness 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine
Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine 4.05 avg rating — 840 ratings
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Close to the Bone: Life Threatening Illness and the Search for Meaning
Close to the Bone: Life Threatening Illness and the Search for Meaning 4.27 avg rating — 209 ratings
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness 3.99 avg rating — 30,921 ratings
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Survival Lessons
Survival Lessons 3.97 avg rating — 3,923 ratings
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Psychiatric Tales: Eleven Graphic Stories About Mental Illness
Psychiatric Tales: Eleven Graphic Stories About Mental Illness 3.61 avg rating — 2,198 ratings
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Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness 3.92 avg rating — 6,578 ratings
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Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them 4.23 avg rating — 13,612 ratings
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The Plague
The Plague 4.02 avg rating — 300,330 ratings
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The Camera My Mother Gave Me
The Camera My Mother Gave Me 3.40 avg rating — 1,429 ratings
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Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression
Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression 4.32 avg rating — 1,444 ratings
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Sick Woman Theory
Sick Woman Theory 4.52 avg rating — 409 ratings
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Monsterhuman (Norwegian Literature)
Monsterhuman (Norwegian Literature) 3.87 avg rating — 371 ratings
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Cancer Vixen: A True Story
Cancer Vixen: A True Story 3.73 avg rating — 1,566 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World 3.89 avg rating — 55,255 ratings
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The Body Alone: A Lyrical Articulation of Chronic Pain
The Body Alone: A Lyrical Articulation of Chronic Pain 4.66 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Reconstructing Illness: Studies in Pathography
Reconstructing Illness: Studies in Pathography 3.54 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum
Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum 3.78 avg rating — 187 ratings
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The Toxic Labyrinth: A Family's Successful Battle Against Environmental Illness
The Toxic Labyrinth: A Family's Successful Battle Against Environmental Illness really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Menopause: A Comic Treatment
Menopause: A Comic Treatment 3.70 avg rating — 521 ratings
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Giving Up the Ghost
Giving Up the Ghost 3.95 avg rating — 4,822 ratings
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Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir
Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir 3.94 avg rating — 2,628 ratings
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic 4.42 avg rating — 20,023 ratings
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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World 3.91 avg rating — 7,931 ratings
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The Ukimwi Road: From Kenya to Zimbabwe
The Ukimwi Road: From Kenya to Zimbabwe 3.89 avg rating — 303 ratings
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A Journal of the Plague Year
A Journal of the Plague Year 3.56 avg rating — 11,576 ratings
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In Pain: A Bioethicist's Personal Struggle with Opioids
In Pain: A Bioethicist's Personal Struggle with Opioids 4.19 avg rating — 1,221 ratings
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Hell Ship
Hell Ship 4.13 avg rating — 681 ratings
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The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up
The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up 4.53 avg rating — 6,926 ratings
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The Stockholm Paradigm: Climate Change and Emerging Disease
The Stockholm Paradigm: Climate Change and Emerging Disease really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women
For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women 3.96 avg rating — 2,501 ratings
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Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic
Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic 3.75 avg rating — 1,641 ratings
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My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer 4.11 avg rating — 3,721 ratings
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How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS 4.44 avg rating — 4,224 ratings
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The Last Man
The Last Man 3.38 avg rating — 6,558 ratings
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Wait Time: A Memoir of Cancer
Wait Time: A Memoir of Cancer really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Girl in the Dark
Girl in the Dark 3.52 avg rating — 3,267 ratings
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Freedom Hospital: A Syrian Story
Freedom Hospital: A Syrian Story 3.57 avg rating — 497 ratings
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Station Eleven
Station Eleven 4.07 avg rating — 590,273 ratings
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A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain (Sexual Cultures, 8)
A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain (Sexual Cultures, 8) 4.02 avg rating — 523 ratings
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Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9,425 ratings
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Green Migraine
Green Migraine 3.82 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers
Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers 4.03 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Emotionally Disturbed: A History of Caring for America's Troubled Children
Emotionally Disturbed: A History of Caring for America's Troubled Children 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics
Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics 3.90 avg rating — 629 ratings
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Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia
Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia 4.31 avg rating — 753 ratings
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Committed to the Sane Asylum: Narratives on Mental Wellness and Healing
Committed to the Sane Asylum: Narratives on Mental Wellness and Healing 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine 3.79 avg rating — 4,482 ratings
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Depression is Fun!
Depression is Fun! 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Canary in the Courtroom: How Pesticide Poisoning Changed a Woman's Life and Forced Her into Civil Action
Canary in the Courtroom: How Pesticide Poisoning Changed a Woman's Life and Forced Her into Civil Action it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Poisoned: The True Story of the Deadly E. Coli Outbreak That Changed the Way Americans Eat
Poisoned: The True Story of the Deadly E. Coli Outbreak That Changed the Way Americans Eat 3.93 avg rating — 642 ratings
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Lupus Handbook for Women: Up-to-Date Information on Understanding and Managing the Disease Which Affects
Lupus Handbook for Women: Up-to-Date Information on Understanding and Managing the Disease Which Affects 3.88 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life
Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life 4.21 avg rating — 428 ratings
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Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service 3.70 avg rating — 497 ratings
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The Pain Scale
The Pain Scale
by: Eula Biss
4.51 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Henry's Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son's Story
Henry's Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son's Story 3.71 avg rating — 1,123 ratings
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Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope
Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope 3.78 avg rating — 343 ratings
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Modern Nature
Modern Nature 4.33 avg rating — 1,775 ratings
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Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia
Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,067 ratings
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