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
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Sick from Freedom
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ISBN: 9780190218263Publication Date: 2015 -
Pathologies of Power
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ISBN: 9780520243262Publication Date: 2004 -
Black and Blue : the Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism
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ISBN: 9780520951846Publication Date: 2012
Communicable Diseases
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Infections and Inequalities
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ISBN: 9780520229136Publication Date: 2001
Food/Nutrition
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In Defense of Food
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ISBN: 9780143114963Publication Date: 2009 -
Food Politics
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ISBN: 9780520254039Publication Date: 2007
Experimentation
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Medical Apartheid
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ISBN: 9780385509930Publication Date: 2007 -
Bad Blood : the Tuskegee syphilis experiment
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ISBN: 0029166756Publication Date: 1993
Communicable Diseases
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House on Fire : the fight to eradicate smallpox
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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.
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And the Band Played On: politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic
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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.
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An American Plague : the true and terrifying story of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793
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ISBN: 0395776082Publication Date: 2003
Medical Policy, Epidemiology
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Betrayal of Trust
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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
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An American Sickness: how healthcare became big business and how you can take it back
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ISBN: 9781594206757Publication Date: 2017
Mental Illness
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Anatomy of an Epidemic
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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?
