10 must-read health books like The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills by David A. Ansell

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The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills

By: David A. Ansell

4.27

Format: 253 pages, Kindle Edition

We hear plenty about the widening income gap between the rich and the poor in America and about the…

If you liked the health plot in The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills by David A. Ansell , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

By: David Quammen

3.10

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

"Science writing as detective story at its best." --Jennifer Ouellette, Scientific American A New Y… read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • health
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2. Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box

By: Arbinger Institute

4.10

Format: 668 pages, Paperback

The "disease" of self-deception (acting in ways contrary to what one knows is right) underlies all … read more

Similar categories in Arbinger Institute's Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box book and David A. Ansell's The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills

  • nonfiction
Cover of An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal

3. An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

By: Elisabeth Rosenthal

3.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

A New York Times bestseller "The definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.… read more

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  • health care
  • health
  • medical
  • politics
  • medicine
  • nonfiction

4. 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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5. Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

By: Sam Quinones

3.78

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In fascinating detail, Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane… read more

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6. 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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7. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

By: bell hooks

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes ab… read more

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8. You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters

By: Kate Murphy

4.08

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

Who listens to you? New York Times contributor Kate Murphy asked people on five continents this … read more

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  • nonfiction
"You’re not listening!"

-Kate Murphy, You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters

"Silence is like white space in design, it surrounds what's important!"

-Kate Murphy, You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters

"If someone is dull or uninteresting, it’s on you. You’re not listening."

-Kate Murphy, You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters

"[E]verybody is interesting if you ask the right questions. If someone is dull or uninteresting, it's on you."

-Kate Murphy, You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters

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9. 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

Similar categories in Uché Blackstock's Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine book and David A. Ansell's The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills

  • race
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
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10. Raising Lazarus

By: Beth Macy

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A “deeply reported, deeply moving” (Patrick Radden Keefe) account of everyday heroes fighting on th… read more

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  • health
  • politics
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
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11. The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER

By: Thomas Fisher

3.92

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The riveting, pulse-pounding story of a year in the life of an emergency room doctor trying to stee… read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • health
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12. 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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  • race
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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13. When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

By: Laura E. Anderson

4.38

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

"Anderson strikes a smart, balanced tone. . . . An exemplary guide to an understudied issue."--Publ… read more

Similar categories in Laura E. Anderson's When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion book and David A. Ansell's The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills

  • nonfiction
"Rebuilding a worldview and identity likely needs to include space for uncertainty."

-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

"I have lived far too much of my life with the end goal of eternal life in heaven, and so I missed a lot of life on earth."

-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

"A marker of healing from religious trauma is not simply the process of deconstructing one’s worldview and identity and rebuilding a new one; it is also the willingness to remain open to shifting and …"

-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

"Religious trauma resides in our bodies and nervous systems in the same way that trauma from war, developmental trauma, or sexualized trauma live inside us. Though the triggers and environment of the …"

-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

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14. Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side

By: Eve L. Ewing

4.39

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools.”   That’s how Eve L. Ewing ope… read more

Similar categories in Eve L. Ewing's Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side book and David A. Ansell's The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills

  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
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15. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

By: Donovan X. Ramsey

4.36

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more

Similar categories in Donovan X. Ramsey's When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era book and David A. Ansell's The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills

  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
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16. The Urge: Our History of Addiction

By: Carl Erik Fisher

4.04

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An authoritative, illuminating, and deeply humane history of addiction--a phenomenon that remains b… read more

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  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • health
"Diagnosis is the art of discernment, of distinguishing one state from another. But how exactly do we define the boundaries of what is normal? This question has dominated the scientific investigation …"

-Carl Erik Fisher, The Urge: Our History of Addiction

"Does history give us any hope for this kind of pragmatic and pluralistic perspective? . . .Today, amid our latest addiction epidemics, we are faced with another precious and rare opportunity for synt…"

-Carl Erik Fisher, The Urge: Our History of Addiction

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17. What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City

By: Mona Hanna-Attisha

4.34

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Here is the inspiring story of how Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, alongside a team of researchers, parents… read more

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  • health
  • medical
  • politics
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
Cover of Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives by Sami Sage

18. Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives

By: Sami Sage

4.13

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A whip-smart combo of self-help and political manifesto that is perfect for anyone who wants to sav… read more

Similar categories in Sami Sage's Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives book and David A. Ansell's The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills

  • politics
  • nonfiction
"There's a small handful of very wealthy and powerful people who actively strategize and spend a lot of money (numbers with multiple commas) to make sure that you ignore politics and neglect your priv…"

-Sami Sage, Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives

Cover of The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills by David A. Ansell

19. The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills

By: David A. Ansell

4.27

Format: 253 pages, Kindle Edition

We hear plenty about the widening income gap between the rich and the poor in America and about the… read more

Similar categories in David A. Ansell's The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills book and David A. Ansell's The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills

  • race
  • health care
  • health
  • medical
  • politics
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • economics
  • sociology
Cover of Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography by Rebecca M. Jordan-Young

20. Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography

By: Rebecca M. Jordan-Young

4.09

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Testosterone is a familiar villain, a ready culprit for everything from stock market crashes to the… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca M. Jordan-Young's Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography book and David A. Ansell's The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills

  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • health
Cover of Doctors' Orders: The Making of Status Hierarchies in an Elite Profession by Tania M Jenkins

21. Doctors' Orders: The Making of Status Hierarchies in an Elite Profession

By: Tania M Jenkins

4.18

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The United States does not have enough doctors. Every year since the 1950s, internationally trained… read more

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  • nonfiction

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