Recs if you like Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present...

A harrowing examination of the times when science abandoned ethics in the name of progress. These books document the exploitation of vulnerable bodies, exposing the systemic racism, sexism, ableism, and unchecked power that have historically hidden behind the white coat. These are the true stories of the "evil scientists" who operated not in gothic castles, but in government and university settings getting paid to make the rich richer.

Books about how systems of inequality are constructed and maintained.

History is really just a convenient story if it's the government or a company pushing the narrative. Investigative and alternative perspectives to popular history.

Books you SHOULD be reading all year

How big pharma, medical insurance, and the entirety of the medical industrial complex is designed to kill you (& what we can do about it)

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!!

This reading guide aims to be a beginner to advanced composition of books within the genre of women/gender (+ LGBTQ -/ basically anything that doesn’t center the experiences of cis-men).

Expect to find titles including but not limited to the scopes of mental health, wellness/psych, disability, & illness in the Global South too!

despite collective abandonment and effective propaganda, the pandemic is ongoing. COVID continues to kill and maim people as it spreads unmitigated worldwide. these are books crucial to the study of the public health realities we’re up against as eugenics and fascism escalate - from disability justice to science communication to social movement histories.

and you want to be more well-read for your job. A mix of books about health, science, and inequity as we play a part in the next generation of doctors

problematizing the medical industrial complex | histories of health(care) | eugenics & medical violence | access to holistic, culturally-appropriate care | the coloniality of Western medicine | returning to ancestral medicine & ways

please comment suggestions, this is a growing exploration :)

A collection concerning medical history, development, education, instances of corruption, etc. Topics of epidemiology and pharmaceuticals included.

Books cited in Nasty Work by Ericka Hart

Non-fiction books inspired by the sound clip: "And remember, kids - the next time somebody tells you, 'the government wouldn't do that'. Oh, yes they would."

This selection of books examines the field of medicine, exposing its history of exploitation, bias, and failure, often reinforcing social inequalities.

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

A little non-fiction list to capture the histories of humans, the mistakes we've made, and lessons to take into the future. Looking to grow it so open to suggestions!

an anti-racist reading list originally shared as a bingo card by @alyseruriani (on IG) — with key additions/adjustments by @r3dsp0tt3dpuRpl3 (on Pagebound)

These are history books about less acknowledged history, of course this tends to happen most with history from non-white, colonised places but has happened in many others too. It is important to draw attention to these issues so that they are not forgotten (non-fiction only)

Books that look at world history (preferably) from the perspective of the societies that lived them just at least not from a European perspective we do our best okay