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
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last updated August, 2026
The Great Shadow: A History of How Sickness Shapes What We Do, Think, Believe, and Buy
Susan Wise Bauer
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Atul Gawande
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green
The Gene: An Intimate History
Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Making Black Scientists: A Call to Action
Marybeth Gasman
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Harriet A. Washington
Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
Damon Tweedy
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Ibram X. Kendi
Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
Uché Blackstock
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