Additional Books
This page contains a few titles recommended by readers. They are grouped by broad topic coverage. A larger list is available. Recommendations are welcome.
Health Services Accessibility
Sick from Freedom by ISBN: 9780190218263Publication Date: 2015
Pathologies of Power by ISBN: 9780520243262Publication Date: 2004
Black and Blue : the Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism by ISBN: 9780520951846Publication Date: 2012
Communicable Diseases
Infections and Inequalities by ISBN: 9780520229136Publication Date: 2001
Food/Nutrition
In Defense of Food by ISBN: 9780143114963Publication Date: 2009
Food Politics by ISBN: 9780520254039Publication Date: 2007
Experimentation
Medical Apartheid by ISBN: 9780385509930Publication Date: 2007
Bad Blood : the Tuskegee syphilis experiment by ISBN: 0029166756Publication Date: 1993
Communicable Diseases
House on Fire : the fight to eradicate smallpox by ISBN: 9780520948891Publication Date: 2011A story of courage and risk-taking, House on Fire tells how smallpox, a disease that killed, blinded, and scarred millions over centuries of human history, was completely eradicated in a spectacular triumph of medicine and public health.
And the Band Played On: politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic by ISBN: 9780312374631Publication Date: 2007Upon it's first publication twenty years ago, And The Band Played on was quickly recognized as a masterpiece of investigative reporting.... Shilts' expose revealed why AIDS was allowed to spread unchecked during the early 80's while the most trusted institutions ignored or denied the threat.
An American Plague : the true and terrifying story of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 by ISBN: 0395776082Publication Date: 2003
Medical Policy, Epidemiology
Betrayal of Trust by Garrett takes us to India, where she meticulously examines the course of the countrys pneumonic plague; to Zaire, where the Ebola virus is still largely unchecked; and to Russia, where bad policy and a collapsing society have made for staggering setbacks in all areas of health. Garrett also exposes the ungoverned world of biological terrorism.
Temple has copies.
American Healthcare
An American Sickness: how healthcare became big business and how you can take it back by ISBN: 9781594206757Publication Date: 2017
Mental Illness
Anatomy of an Epidemic by In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled over the past two decades?
