Books

Recommended reading on autoimmune diseases.

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Alopecia Areata: Understanding and Coping with Hair Loss cover

Alopecia Areata: Understanding and Coping with Hair Loss

Wendy Thompson, Jerry Shapiro

A thorough and compassionate guide for patients and families living with alopecia areata, written by a patient advocate...

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Ankylosing Spondylitis and Axial Spondyloarthritis

Muhammad Asim Khan

The updated 2023 edition of Dr. Muhammad Asim Khan's definitive patient guide, expanded to cover the modern understandin...

Ankylosing Spondylitis: The Facts cover

Ankylosing Spondylitis: The Facts

Muhammad Asim Khan

Written by a leading expert who has lived with ankylosing spondylitis since age 12, this Oxford University Press guide c...

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness cover

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

Susannah Cahalan

New York Post journalist Susannah Cahalan recounts her harrowing experience of sudden psychosis, seizures, and paralysis...

Guillain-Barre Syndrome: From Diagnosis to Recovery cover

Guillain-Barre Syndrome: From Diagnosis to Recovery

Gareth J. Parry, Joel S. Steinberg

The definitive patient guide to Guillain-Barre syndrome and its variants, including acute motor axonal neuropathy (AMAN)...

Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis: Lifestyle Interventions for Finding and Treating the Root Cause cover

Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis: Lifestyle Interventions for Finding and Treating the Root Cause

Dr. Izabella Wentz, PharmD, Marta Nowosadzka, MD

Dr. Izabella Wentz’s Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis: Lifestyle Interventions for Finding and Treating the Root Cause offe...

Head-On: Stories of Alopecia cover

Head-On: Stories of Alopecia

Deeann Callis Graham

An inspiring collection of personal narratives from over 75 people living with various types of alopecia, paired with bl...

Life After Encephalitis: A Narrative Approach cover

Life After Encephalitis: A Narrative Approach

Ava Easton

Drawing on the stories of encephalitis survivors and their families, Dr. Ava Easton's book illuminates the long road to...

Life Support: Surviving Guillain-Barre Syndrome cover

Life Support: Surviving Guillain-Barre Syndrome

Holly Frances

Weeks after giving birth, Holly Frances went from healthy new mother to paralyzed and on life support in less than 72 ho...

Living With Addison's Disease: A Guide For People With Addison's, Supporters and Professionals cover

Living With Addison's Disease: A Guide For People With Addison's, Supporters and Professionals

Simon Pearce, Sarah Spain, John Wass, Victoria Rouse, Tim Cheetham, Phillip Yeoh, Neil McClements

A practical, evidence-based guide to Addison's disease written by leading endocrinologists alongside a patient who has l...

More Sticky Blood cover

More Sticky Blood

Kay Thackray

Kay Thackray returns with an expanded look at antiphospholipid syndrome, addressing areas her first book could not fully...