Published November, 2022
By Raina MacIntyre
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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World-leading epidemiologist Professor Raina MacIntyre navigates the past, present and future of pandemics and biosecurity. MacIntyre examines the history of biological warfare, Soviet and US bioweapons programmes, developments in genetic engineering, synthetic biology and catastrophic laboratory accidents. She also explores the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Published October, 2021
By Rachelle Buchbinder and Ian Harris
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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In Hippocrasy, two world-leading doctors - rheumatologist and epidemiologist Rachelle Buchbinder and orthopaedic surgeon Ian Harris - reveal the true state of modern medicine and how doctors are letting their patients down.

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Published October, 2021
By Krista Vane-Tempest
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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Traces Edith Blake's story from training in Sydney to her war service in the Middle East and the Mediterranean; her conflicted feelings about nursing German prisoners of war as German aircraft bombed England, to her death in waters where Germany had promised the safe passage of hospital ships.

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Published November, 2020
By Tanya Plibersek
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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Published September, 2020
By Katerina Bryant
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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Katerina Bryant's debut Hysteria is an astounding hybrid memoir exploring chronic mental illness and the treatment of women's health throughout history. In the tradition of Siri Hustvedt's The Shaking Woman, Bryant blends memoir with literary and historical analysis to explore women's medical treatment.

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Published February, 2020
By Nick Cook
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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A history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Australia, this book focuses on the role played by affected communities in addressing the crisis, a side of the story that is often overlooked. With lives and the survival of communities on the line, Fighting For Our Lives captures the highstakes drama of this extraordinary period.

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Published June, 2019
By Dr James Dunk
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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What happened when people went mad in the fledgling colony of New South Wales? In this important new history of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, we find out through the correspondence of tireless colonial secretaries, the brazen language of lawyers and judges and firebrand politicians, and heartbreaking letters.

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Published April, 2016
By Frank Bowden
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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Infectious diseases specialist Frank Bowden sheds light on the everyday diseases that affect most of us (colds, head lice) and the more serious issues that keep us awake at night (antibiotic resistance, the Ebola epidemic). As well as exploring treatments and busting myths, Bowden draws out the basics of epidemiology and medical research to look at the big issues affecting public health.

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Published March, 2016
By Professor Ian Harris and Ian Harris
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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Published July, 2015
By Mr Dean A. Murphy
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Dean Murphy analyses how relatedness is enacted in the context of gay men pursuing parenthood and a 'child of one's own' through both domestic and transnational surrogacy arrangements.

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