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required reading for U.S healthcare workers

by yayatheflower

these are books that i think are imperative for a compassionate, empathetic, understanding, proactive healthcare workforce cause they won’t teach you this in school. please suggest more you think should be here!!

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Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally

Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally

Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

Pharming Lessons on Good and Bad Crops

the history of how drugs were made to save lives… and how evil people ruined them

critique and suggestions are welcome :)

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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far

Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women

Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far

a beginner's guide to public health

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Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City

Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion

Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City

Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World

Public Health and Infectious Disease - Non-Fiction

Public health: scientific, political, social, cultural, economic…

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Get It Out: On the Politics of Hysterectomy (Health, Society, and Inequality)

The Woman beneath the Skin: A Doctor’s Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany

How Not to Age: The Scientific Approach to Getting Healthier as You Get Older

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Get It Out: On the Politics of Hysterectomy (Health, Society, and Inequality)

The Woman beneath the Skin: A Doctor’s Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany

Politricks

by Hoochiskrazey

A look into the United States of America and what it’s done, is doing, and will do.

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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Columbine

How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

Watergate: A New History

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Columbine

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