Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care
By: Dayna Matthew
3.93
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Offers an innovative plan to eliminate inequalities in American health care and save the lives they…
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1. When Breath Becomes Air
By: Abraham Verghese , Paul Kalanithi
4.40
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely obse… read more
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- medical
- medicine
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"If the unexamined life was not worth living, was the unlived life worth examining?"-Abraham Verghese, When Breath Becomes Air
"It’s very easy to be number one: find the guy who is number one, and score one point higher than he does."-Abraham Verghese, When Breath Becomes Air
"Everything teeters between pathos and bathos: here you are, violating society's most fundamental taboos and yet formaldehyde is a powerful appetite stimulant, so you also crave a burrito."-Abraham Verghese, When Breath Becomes Air
"Will having a newborn distract from the time we have together?" she asked. "Don't you think saying goodbye to your child will make your death more painful?" "Wouldn't it be great if it did?" I said. …"-Abraham Verghese, When Breath Becomes Air
2. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
By: Atul Gawande
4.49
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
In Being Mortal, author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine … read more
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- health
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
"Endings matter, not just for the person but, perhaps even more, for the ones left behind."-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
"Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you."-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
"Death, of course, is not a failure. Death is normal. Death may be the enemy, but it is also the natural order of things."-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
"He moved his line in the sand. This is what it means to have autonomy -- you may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with …"-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
3. Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
By: Gregory Boyle
4.48
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Father Gregory Boyle’s sparkling parables about kinship and the sacredness of life are drawn from t… read more
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- nonfiction
"If you can't fix it, feature it."-Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
"Sometimes, it only seems that the hurt wins."-Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
"Terror melting into wonder, then slipping into peace."-Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
"[T]he principal suffering of the poor is shame and disgrace."-Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
4. Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens
By: Eddie Izzard
3.86
Format: 15 pages, Audio CD
Critically acclaimed, award-winning British comedian and actor Eddie Izzard details her childhood, … read more
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- nonfiction
"But stinging nettles: They just love existing, don't they? They're bastards. Stinging nettles are the Nazis of the weed world."-Eddie Izzard, Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens
"It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized you could buy a packet of cereal with a free gift and then just stick your hand in and root around in the packet until you found the free thing. It seem…"-Eddie Izzard, Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens
"If you are an LGBT+ person and you come out, you have to go through your knight’s quest to create ground for yourself, to create a space for yourself, to stand there and say, “I exist. I have no reas…"-Eddie Izzard, Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens
"And there is a rule in every major religion, called the Golden Rule. Essentially: treat other people the way you’d like to be treated yourself. If we all did this, the whole world would work instanta…"-Eddie Izzard, Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens
5. The House of God
By: John Updike , Samuel Shem
2.67
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
The hilarious novel of the healing arts that reveals everything your doctor never wanted you to kno… read more
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- medical
- medicine
6. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
By: Richard Rothstein
2.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading auth… read more
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- race
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- anti racist
7. And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
By: William Greider , Randy Shilts
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
By the time Rock Hudson's death in 1985 alerted all America to the danger of the AIDS epidemic, the… read more
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- politics
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
8. The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
By: T.R. Reid
3.47
Format: 156 pages,
In The Healing of America, New York Timesbestselling author T. R. Reid shows how all the other indu… read more
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- health care
- health
- medical
- politics
- medicine
- nonfiction
9. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.26
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane "biography" of cancer--from its fir… read more
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10. Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
By: Damon Tweedy
0.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
One doctor's passionate and profound memoir of his experience grappling with race, bias, and the un… read more
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11. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
By: Anne Fadiman
3.91
Format: 2 pages,
Lia Lee was born in 1981 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epi… read more
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12. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
By: Harriet A. Washington
0.00
Format: 126 pages, Hardcover
From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black America's shocking mist… read more
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13. Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors
By: Susan Sontag
3.28
Format: 5 pages,
In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweekas "one of the … read more
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14. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
By: Michelle Alexander
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"As the United States celebrates the nation's 'triumph over race' with the election of Barack Obama… read more
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15. In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope
By: None
4.13
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A riveting first-hand account of a physician who's suddenly a dying patient and her revelation of t… read more
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16. Rough Sleepers
By: Tracy Kidder
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In Rough Sleepers, Tracy Kidder shows how one person can make a difference, as he tells the story o… read more
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- politics
- medicine
- nonfiction
- social justice
17. 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
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- health
- medical
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- science
18. The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
By: Ricardo Nuila
4.38
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In… read more
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- health care
- health
- medical
- politics
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
19. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
By: Alice Wong
4.47
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, oth… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
"Just knowing your rights (or your worth or value) will never be enough if you are powerless to force someone else to respect them."-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"The peculiar drama of my life has placed me in a world that by and large thinks it would be better if people like me did not exist. My fight has been for accommodation, the world to me and me to the …"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"Advocacy is for all of us; advocacy is a way of life. It is a natural response to the injustice and inequality in the world. While you and I may not have sole responsibility for these inequities, tha…"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"He understood that each individual group’s liberation was inextricably linked to the other—that justice and liberation could only be had if we all stand together and fight for the rights and libertie…"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
20. The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having―or Being Denied―an Abortion
By: Diana Greene Foster
4.58
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“If you read only one book about democracy, The Turnaway Study should be it. Why? Because without t… read more
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- health
- medical
- politics
- medicine
- nonfiction
- social justice
- science
21. Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
By: Uché Blackstock
4.46
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
“Legacy is an illuminating and stirring journey of a book.” —Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times- bes… read more
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- race
- health
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
22. On Rotation
By: Shirlene Obuobi
3.67
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Grey’s Anatomy and Seven Days in June, this dazzling debut novel by Shirlene Obuobi exp… read more
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- medicine
"Ricky had seen the full, unfiltered range of what I was, and he liked me. Just as I was. Angie Appiah, with no edits."-Shirlene Obuobi, On Rotation
"All this time, I'd assumed that being a doctor meant performing miracles. Fixing bodies. Saving lives. I had hardly considered the flip side of that coin: that it also meant looking a patient's famil…"-Shirlene Obuobi, On Rotation
23. Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
By: Deirdre Cooper Owens
4.14
Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition
The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Natha… read more
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- health
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- medicine
- nonfiction
- social justice
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24. The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
By: Esmé Weijun Wang
4.14
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with … read more
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- nonfiction
- health
"In the language of cancer, people describe a thing that “invades"-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
"The psychiatric hierarchy decrees who can and cannot be high-functioning and “gifted."-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
"Someday, we'll be able to trace all mental illnesses to autoimmune disorders. But we're not there yet."-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
"The line between insanity and mysticism is thin; the line between reality and unreality is thin. Liminality as a spiritual concept is all about the porousness of boundaries."-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
25. The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
By: Meghan O'Rourke
4.03
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
A landmark exploration of one of the most consequential and mysterious issues of our time: the rise… read more
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- health
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
"As the chronically ill know, to be alive is to be in uncertainty."-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
"Knowledge brings the hope of treatment or cure. And even if there is no cure, a diagnosis is a form of knowing (the word “diagnosis"-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
"And so it is a truth universally acknowledged that a young woman in possession of vague symptoms like fatigue and pain will be in search of a doctor who believes she is actually sick ."-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
"Is illness, in any way, a lesson? Illness is a travesty; illness is shit; illness is not redemptive unless it happens to be for a particular ill person, for reasons that are not replicable nor should…"-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
26. Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
By: Abby Norman
3.93
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For any woman who has experienced illness, chronic pain, or endometriosis comes an inspiring memoir… read more
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- health
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
"I was not a ghost. I was a little girl with needs and wants and allergies. Still, I hung soundlessly, as weightlessly as I could, in the air. The living can haunt a house, too."-Abby Norman, Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
"In retrospect, that was the moment I realized my ignorance was going to exacerbate whatever the problem was, and that I had to prescribe myself some kind of medical education, at least as it pertaine…"-Abby Norman, Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
"So often we think that the truth is a static entity that exists only in a singular place--a place that we have to find. But I have come to realize that the answers I have been looking for, the truth …"-Abby Norman, Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
"Where a woman is in her menstrual cycle also influences how her body metabolizes, well, anything. Researchers know this: that's why, when they do include women in trials, they design the research so …"-Abby Norman, Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
27. Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage
By: Rachel E. Gross
4.42
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A scientific journey to the center of the new female body. The Latin term for the female genital… read more
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- health
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
"Medicine is supposed to be unbiased," she says. "But when we look at the bigger picture of it, we can see that it is far from that."-Rachel E. Gross, Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage
"Darwin's attitudes toward women were a direct outgrowth of his ideas about other animals—or, rather, each reinforced the other. Throughout his career, he insisted that female animals were less capabl…"-Rachel E. Gross, Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage
"Your vagina is another planet. If you could shrink down to the size of a grain of sand and go between your own legs, you'd find a wondrous realm of humid jungles, cool caves, and viscous pits of mucu…"-Rachel E. Gross, Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage
28. We Can't Talk about That at Work!: How to Talk about Race, Religion, Politics, and Other Polarizing Topics
By: Mary-Frances Winters
3.65
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Instead of shutting down any mention of taboo topics, Mary-Frances Winters shows how to structure i… read more
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- race
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- anti racist
29. How to Date Men When You Hate Men
By: Blythe Roberson
3.21
Format: None pages, Audio CD
From New Yorker and Onion writer and comedian Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men is… read more
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- nonfiction
"There do exist reasons to internet stalk someone that aren't sad or creepy: maybe you just remembered this person for the first time in fifteen years, maybe you're going on a first date and want to m…"-Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men
"Even more than I hate commodifying myself, I hate men judging me as a commodity. For thousands of years, women have been throughout their lives reduced to their worth as sexual objects (slash domesti…"-Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men
30. Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care
By: Dayna Matthew
3.93
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Offers an innovative plan to eliminate inequalities in American health care and save the lives they… read more
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- social justice
- anti racist
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By: Harriet A. Washington
4.53
Format: None pages, Paperback
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