Global Health


Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues
Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
A History of Global Health: Interventions Into the Lives of Other Peoples
Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
The Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases  by Paul OlaThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderThe Radium Girls by Kate  MooreSpillover by David Quammen
Public Health Must Reads
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Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. BlowHigh Rise Stories by Audrey PettyThe Divide by Matt TaibbiFire in the Ashes by Jonathan KozolLet's Get Free by Paul   Butler
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Global health players can become impervious to critique as they identify emergencies, cite dire statistics, and act on their essential duty of promoting health in the name of "humanitarian reason" or as an instrument of economic development, diplomacy, or national security. We are left, however, with an open-source anarchy around global health problems--a policy space in which new strategies, rules, distributive schemes, and the practical ethics of health care are being assembled, experimented w ...more
João Biehl, When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health

The mosquito is the deadliest animal in the world... When it comes to killing humans, no other animal even comes close.
Bill Gates with Collins Hemingway

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