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• Illness and the Limits of Expression (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Kathlyn Conway (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Family Hospice Care: Pre-Planning and Care Guide (electronic edition, 2002), by Harry Van Bommel (HTML with commentary at carelibrary.com)

• When Children Die: Improving Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Children and Their Families (2003), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Chequer Board (c1947), by Nevil Shute (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Family Hospice Care: Pre-Planning and Care Guide (electronic edition, 2002), by Harry Van Bommel (HTML with commentary at carelibrary.com)
• The Heart of Hospice, by Dorothy C. H. Ley and Harry Van Bommel (HTML with commentary at carelibrary.com)

• Nursing Care at the End of Life: What Every Clinician Should Know (Geneseo, NY: Open SUNY Textbooks, 2015), by Susan Eva Lowey (multiple formats with commentary at milneopentextbooks.org)

• Describing Death in America: What We Need to Know (2003), ed. by June Rigby Lunney, Kathleen M. Foley, Thomas J. Smith, and Hellen Gelband (page images at NAP)
• Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life, ed. by Marilyn J. Field and Christine K. Cassel (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Institutional Protocols for Decisions About Life-Sustaining Treatments: Special Report (Washington: GPO, 1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Dying for Care: Hospice Care or Euthanasia (electronic edition, 1995), by Harry Van Bommel (HTML with commentary at carelibrary.com)

• When Children Die: Improving Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Children and Their Families (2003), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Birds' Christmas Carol, by Kate Douglas Wiggin
  • illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine: One Health and Its Histories (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, c2018), by Abigail Woods, Michael Bresalier, Angela Cassidy, and Rachel Mason Dentinger (PDF and Epub with commentary at Springer)

• Degeneration, Regeneration (St. Petersburg, FL: Biochemical Research Foundation, c1949), by Melvin E. Page (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Genesis and Control of Disease: An Attempt to Demonstrate the Pathological Possibilities of Emotional and Physical Maladjustment and Resultant Metabolic and Nutritional Disturbance (Los Angeles: Press of Phillips Printing Co., 1931), by George S. Weger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Genesis of Epidemics and the Natural History of Disease: An Introduction to the Science of Epidemiology Based Upon the Study of Epidemics of Malaria, Influenza, and Plague (New York: W. Wood and Co., 1928), by C. A. Gill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Airborne Contagion and Air Hygiene: An Ecological Study of Droplet Infections (Cambridge, MA: Pub. for the Commonwealth Fund by Harvard University Press, 1955), by William Firth Wells (multiple formats at Google)
• The Relation of Alimentation and Disease (New York: J. H. Vail and Co., 1888), by James Henry Salisbury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Farming and Gardening for Health or Disease (1945), by Albert Howard and Louise E. Howard (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• Dr. Colbatch's Legacy, or the Family Physician: Containing an Account of All the Diseases Incident to the Human Body, Alphabetically Digested (London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1733), by John Colbatch (page images at NIH)
• Observationes in Morbos Nautarum: Prout in Classe Serenissimi Magnae Britanniae Regis Occurrunt, Cum Remediorum Specimine (in Latin; London: The author, 1733), by Henry Huntley (page images at NIH)

• Dr. Colbatch's Legacy, or the Family Physician: Containing an Account of All the Diseases Incident to the Human Body, Alphabetically Digested (London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1733), by John Colbatch (page images at NIH)

• Julia Ried: Listening and Led (Cincinnati: J. G. Monfort, 1873), by Isabella Macdonald Alden (page images at Google)

• Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes: A User's Guide (second edition, 2010), ed. by Richard E. Gliklich and Nancy A. Dreyer (illustrated HTML at NIH)

• Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors (2006), ed. by Alan D. Lopez, Colin D. Mathers, Majid Ezzati, Dean T. Jamison, and Christopher J. L. Murray (HTML and PDF files at NIH)

• Our Future Selves: A Research Plan Toward Understanding Aging (Bethesda, MD: U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, 1978), by National Advisory Council on Aging Panel on Research on Human Services and Delivery Systems (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Patient's Guide to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia, by Bruce F. Campbell, contrib. by Charles W. Lapp (HTML with commentary at cfidsselfhelp.org)

• Airborne Contagion and Air Hygiene: An Ecological Study of Droplet Infections (Cambridge, MA: Pub. for the Commonwealth Fund by Harvard University Press, 1955), by William Firth Wells (multiple formats at Google)
• Polymicrobial Diseases, ed. by Kim A. Brogden and Janet M. Guthmiller (HTML at NIH)
• Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (aka the Pink Book; current electronic edition), by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) (PDF files at cdc.gov)

• SARS: Down But Still a Threat (National Intelligence Council ICA 2003-09, 2003), by Karen Monaghan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Clinical Methods: The History, Physical, and Laboratory Examinations (third edition, 1990), ed. by H. Kenneth Walker, W. Dallas Hall, and J. Willis Hurst (HTML and PDF at NIH)
• Aids to Medical Diagnosis (New York: W. Wood and Co., 1907), by Arthur Whiting (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Diagnostics of Internal Medicine: A Clinical Treatise Upon the Recognised Principles of Medical Diagnosis, Prepared for the Use of Students and Practitioners of Medicine (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1901), by Glentworth Reeve Butler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Urine and Feces in Diagnosis (Philadelphia and New York: Lea Brothers and Co., 1905), by Otto Hensel and Richard Weil, contrib. by Smith Ely Jelliffe (page images at Google; US access only)

• The CDC Field Epidemiology Manual (2019), ed. by Sonja A. Rasmussen and Richard A. Goodman (HTML with commentary at cdc.gov)
• From the Remains: Reflections on Station Eleven (Knoxville: Newfound Press, c2018), ed. by Robin A. Bedenbaugh (PDF at Tennessee)
• The Genesis of Epidemics and the Natural History of Disease: An Introduction to the Science of Epidemiology Based Upon the Study of Epidemics of Malaria, Influenza, and Plague (New York: W. Wood and Co., 1928), by C. A. Gill (page images at HathiTrust)

• Blazing a Genetic Trail: Families and Scientists Join in Seeking the Flawed Genes That Cause Disease, ed. by Maya Pines (illustrated HTML at hhmi.org)

• Genes and Disease (electronic edition), by National Center for Biotechnology Information (U.S.) (illustrated HTML at NIH)
• The Genetical Factor in Endemic Goiter (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #428, 1932), by Charles Benedict Davenport (page images at HathiTrust)

• Military Preventive Medicine: Mobilization and Deployment (2 volumes from the Textbooks of Military Medicine series; 2003-2005), ed. by Patrick W. Kelley
  • Volume 1: PDF files at Borden Institute
  • Volume 2: PDF files at Borden Institute
• Epidemiology for the Uninitiated (fourth edition, 1997), by D. Coggon, Geoffrey Rose, and D. J. P. Barker (HTML at bmj.com)

• Diseases of Metabolism and of the Blood; Animal Parasites; Toxicology (New York and London; D. Appleton and Co., 1911), ed. by Richard C. Cabot, trans. by Julius L. Salinger (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Inborn Errors of Metabolism (second edition, 1923), by Archibald E. Garrod (PDF files at esp.org)

• Diseases Transmitted by Foods (A Classification and Summary) (second edition; Atlanta: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, Center for Professional Development and Training, 1982), by Frank L. Bryan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nutrition and Physical Degeneration (author died in 1948; c1939), by Weston A. Price (PDF in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• Toil and Toxics: Workplace Struggles and Political Strategies for Occupational Health (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by James C. Robinson (HTML at UC Press)
• Job Demands and Worker Health: Main Effects and Occupational Differences (1975), by Robert D. Caplan, Sidney Cobb, John R. P. French, R. Van Harrison, and Samuel Richard Pinneau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Industrial Health (Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son and Co., c1924), ed. by George M. Kober and Emery Roe Hayhurst (page images at HathiTrust)
• Occupational Marks and Other Physical Signs: A Guide to Personal Identification (New York: Grune and Stratton, 1948), by Francesco Ronchese, contrib. by John G. Downing (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.