5 must-read disability studies books like Health Communism by Beatrice Adler-Bolton

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Health Communism

By: Beatrice Adler-Bolton

4.31

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A searing analysis of health and illness under capitalism from hosts of the hit podcast “Death Pane…

If you liked the disability studies plot in Health Communism by Beatrice Adler-Bolton , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution by Vincent Bevins

1. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

By: Vincent Bevins

4.28

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next   From 20… read more

Similar categories in Vincent Bevins's If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution book and Beatrice Adler-Bolton's Health Communism

  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"

-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

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2. The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide

By: Steven W. Thrasher

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From preeminent LGBTQ scholar, social critic, and journalist Steven W. Thrasher comes a powerful an… read more

Similar categories in Steven W. Thrasher's The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide book and Beatrice Adler-Bolton's Health Communism

  • health
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • disability
Cover of Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want by Ruha Benjamin

3. Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want

By: Ruha Benjamin

4.47

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring vision of how we can build a more just world--one small change at a time Long befor… read more

Similar categories in Ruha Benjamin's Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want book and Beatrice Adler-Bolton's Health Communism

  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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4. Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

By: Ashley Shew

4.30

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are … read more

Similar categories in Ashley Shew's Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement book and Beatrice Adler-Bolton's Health Communism

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • disability studies
  • disability
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5. Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics

By: Marc Lamont Hill

4.21

Format: 227 pages, Hardcover

A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from … read more

Similar categories in Marc Lamont Hill's Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics book and Beatrice Adler-Bolton's Health Communism

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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6. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

By: Vincent Bevins

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more

Similar categories in Vincent Bevins's The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World book and Beatrice Adler-Bolton's Health Communism

  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"

-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

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7. Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

By: Da’Shaun Harrison

4.53

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Exploring anti-fatness and anti-Blackness at the intersections of race, police violence, gender ide… read more

Similar categories in Da’Shaun Harrison's Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness book and Beatrice Adler-Bolton's Health Communism

  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • disability
"Ugly is political. It is the determiner for who does and does not work; who does and does not Love; who does and does not die; who does and does not eat."

-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

"What is the utility of "body positivity" if it only seeks to provide one with a false sense of confidence rather than to liberate all from that which cages the body?"

-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

"What would it mean for us to lean into Insecurity as a political tool in which we free ourselves from insisting that we perform "perfection" and total confidence in order to advocate for our collecti…"

-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

"What I am really naming here is the complicatedness of feeling both affirmed and harmed by your assault because your body is never really your own when you're fat and Black, and the trauma you arrive…"

-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

Cover of Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

8. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

4.00

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more

Similar categories in Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò's Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) book and Beatrice Adler-Bolton's Health Communism

  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

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9. Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains

By: Alexa Hagerty

4.47

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims' families to investigate crimes against h… read more

Similar categories in Alexa Hagerty's Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains book and Beatrice Adler-Bolton's Health Communism

  • politics
  • nonfiction
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10. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

4.55

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and perfor… read more

Similar categories in Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice book and Beatrice Adler-Bolton's Health Communism

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • disability studies
  • disability
"It [i.e. disability justice] means we are not left behind; we are beloved, kindred, needed."

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

"To me, one quality of disability justice culture is that it is simultaneously beautiful and practical. Poetry and dance are as valuable as a blog post about access hacks - because they're equally imp…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

"Disability Justice allowed me to understand that me writing from my sickbed wasn't me being week or uncool or not a real writer but a time-honoured crip creative practice. And that understanding allo…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

"One of the central loves of my life is coaching and supporting other writers. Specifically, writers who identify as BIPOC, sick/Mad/disabled, queer/trans, femme, working-class/poor, or some or all of…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

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11. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

By: Dean Spade

4.38

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around… read more

Similar categories in Dean Spade's Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next) book and Beatrice Adler-Bolton's Health Communism

  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"In the context of professionalized nonprofit organizations, groups are urged to be single-issue oriented, framing their message around "deserving" people within the population they serve, and using t…"

-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

"When we feel bad, we often automatically decide that either we are bad or another person is bad. Both of these moves cause damage and distort the truth, which is that we are all navigating difficult …"

-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

"Burnout is the combination of resentment, exhaustion, shame, and frustration that make us lose connection to pleasure and passion in the work, and instead encounter difficult feelings like avoidance,…"

-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

Cover of The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein

12. The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

By: Antony Loewenstein

4.44

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal depl… read more

Similar categories in Antony Loewenstein's The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World book and Beatrice Adler-Bolton's Health Communism

  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
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13. Health Communism

By: Beatrice Adler-Bolton

4.31

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A searing analysis of health and illness under capitalism from hosts of the hit podcast “Death Pane… read more

Similar categories in Beatrice Adler-Bolton's Health Communism book and Beatrice Adler-Bolton's Health Communism

  • health care
  • disability
  • health
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • economics
  • disability studies
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14. Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation

By: Sophie Lewis

3.70

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

What if everyone was family? We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Lewis's Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation book and Beatrice Adler-Bolton's Health Communism

  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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15. Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

By: Kelly Hayes

4.64

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let T… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Hayes's Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care book and Beatrice Adler-Bolton's Health Communism

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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16. Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)

By: Micha Frazer-Carroll

4.40

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

‘A radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualisation of mental health’  Dazed ‘E… read more

Similar categories in Micha Frazer-Carroll's Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto) book and Beatrice Adler-Bolton's Health Communism

  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • disability
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17. The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

4.46

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha follows up their incredible book Care Work with The Future Is Disa… read more

Similar categories in Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs book and Beatrice Adler-Bolton's Health Communism

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • disability studies
  • disability
"There is no one disabled future. But in mine, there is guaranteed income, housing, access, food, water, and education for all—or money has been abolished. I get paid to write from my bed. The births …"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

"Sometimes I feel impatient about how much ableism has forced us to emphasize accessibility to get people to pay even a modicum of attention to it. Collective access is revolutionary because disabled …"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

"A future where disability justice won looks like queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, folks of colour, and women, girls, and nonbinary humans are living in a world where disability is the norm, and where…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

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18. Radical Intimacy

By: Sophie K. Rosa

4.23

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

An impassioned discussion about the alternative ways to form relationships and resist capitalism. … read more

Similar categories in Sophie K. Rosa's Radical Intimacy book and Beatrice Adler-Bolton's Health Communism

  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice by Rupa Marya

19. Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice

By: Rupa Marya

4.31

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Raj Patel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with physician, … read more

Similar categories in Rupa Marya's Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice book and Beatrice Adler-Bolton's Health Communism

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • health
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20. Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism

By: Robert Chapman

4.39

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

‘Groundbreaking … [provides] a deep history of the  invention of the “normal” mind as one of the mo… read more

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  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • disability
Cover of The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise) by Jasbir K. Puar

21. The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise)

By: Jasbir K. Puar

4.36

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

In The Right to Maim Jasbir K. Puar brings her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, a… read more

Similar categories in Jasbir K. Puar's The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise) book and Beatrice Adler-Bolton's Health Communism

  • disability
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • disability studies

21 Top politics books like Health Communism by Beatrice Adler-Bolton

Transform Your Habits

If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

Vincent Bevins

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide

Steven W. Thrasher

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want

Ruha Benjamin

4.47

Transform Your Habits

Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

Ashley Shew

4.30

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11 best-selling audiobook books like If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution by Vincent Bevins

Transform Your Habits

Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

Michael Parenti

4.41

Transform Your Habits

If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

Vincent Bevins

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

4.22

Transform Your Habits

The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination

Stuart A. Reid

4.40

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