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Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City
Robin Nagle
Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives: Tales of Life and Death from the ER
Pamela Grim
Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health
Marty Makary
Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society
Arline T. Geronimus
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Mikki Kendall
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond
The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, And The Human Condition
Arthur Kleinman
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
Michael Lewis
Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health
Eugene T. Richardson
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues, Updated with a new preface
Paul Farmer
AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care)
Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction
To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation
Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor
For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women
Barbara Ehrenreich
The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
Ricardo Nuila
The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills
David A. Ansell
Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines
Jennifer A. Reich
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
Elisabeth Rosenthal
Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
Tracy Kidder
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
Sheri Fink
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
Ben Goldfarb
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
Adam Kay
Poisoned Water: How the Citizens of Flint, Michigan, Fought for Their Lives and Warned the Nation
Candy J. Cooper
Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle against DuPont
Robert Bilott
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Patrick Radden Keefe
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Caroline Criado Pérez
Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far
Paul A. Offit
pale rider: the spanish flu of 1918 and how it changed the world by laura spinney is a must for this list especially for the times we're in now.
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