Care: How People of Faith Can Respond to Our Broken Health System
By G. Scott Morris. Drawing from his experience as medical doctor, pastor, and founder and CEO of the nation’s largest charitably funded faith-based... Read More
Cost of Living: Essays
By Emily Maloney. Based on the author’s personal experiences, provides an examination of just what our troubled healthcare system asks us to... Read More
Dying for Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor
Edited by Jim Yong Kim, Joyce Millen, Alec Irwin and John Gershman. Provides an examination of how unequal patterns of growth and... Read More
Grow and Hide: The History of America’s Health Care State
By Colleen M. Grogan. A sweeping history of the American health care state that reveals the public has been intentionally misled about... Read More
Health and Human Rights in a Changing World
Edited by Michael Grodin, Daniel Taratola, George Annas and Sofia Gruskin. An anthology of essays addressing the balance between public health and... Read More
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues
By Paul Farmer. Written from the front lines of the war against AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and typhoid and shows why, even more... Read More
Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
By Uché Blackstock MD. The story of a Black physician, her career in medicine, and the deep inequities that exist in the... Read More
Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America
By Laurie Kaye Abraham. A look at the human face of health care by looking at the lives of four generations of... Read More
Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader
By Paul Farmer. A collection of writings from 1988 to 2009 on anthropology, epidemiology, health care for the global poor, and international... Read More
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor
By Paul Farmer. Uses stories of life and death in extreme situations to question a common understanding of human rights. Argues that... Read More
Paul Farmer: Servant to the Poor
By Jennie Weiss Block. An introduction to this physician and medical anthropologist of international stature whose faith has driven him to work... Read More
Re-imagining Global Health: An Introduction
By Jim Yong Kim, Arthur Kleinman and Paul Farmer. Drawn from a Harvard course, provides an introduction to the field of global... Read More
Sojourners
Encourages Christians to put their faith into action in the passionate pursuit of social justice, peace, and environmental stewardship through resources like... Read More
The Case for Universal Health Care
By David Colton. Starting from the premise that health care is a societal responsibility, contends that universal health care should not only... Read More
The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills
By David Ansell M.D. The author gives a grim survey of the realities of nearly four decades as a doctor at hospitals serving... Read More
The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town
By Brian Alexander. By following the struggle for survival of one small-town hospital, and the patients who walk, or are carried, through... Read More
The People’s Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
By by M.D. Ricardo Nuila. Follows the lives of five uninsured Houstonians as their struggle for survival leads them to a hospital where... Read More
The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care — and How to Fix It
By Marty Makary MD. Drawing from on-the-ground stories, research, and experience, paints a picture of price-gouging, middlemen, and a series of elusive... Read More
The Upstream Doctors: Medical Innovators Track Sickness to Its Source
By Rishi Manchanda. Argues that effective care for most illnesses requires understanding the social conditions of patients and that society needs to... Read More
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
By Linda Villarosa. Tells the story of racial health disparities in America, revealing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health... Read More
War and Public Health
Edited by Barry Levy and Victor Sidel. An examination of the relationship between war and public health, documenting the public health consequences... Read More