If you had to read one book on global health...

If there is 1 book that you would like all global health students to read, it would be.....? Here is an impressive list of over 300 books generated by this question on Twitter!

Published Nov 21, 2018

Madhukar Pai

Associate Director, McGill International TB Centre

If you had to read one book on global health...

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Post updated on 9 Sept, 2023

Four years ago, I posed a question on Twitter: If there is 1 book that you would like all global health students to read, it would be.....?

The question elicited a large number of responses and re-tweets. Here is the compilation of over 310 books recommended by a variety of people. I have provided a hyperlink to a website with more details on each book. The list is alphabetically organized using the last name of the first author of the book. I have made no effort to rank the books (which is impossible, in any case!) nor provide numbers on how many times a book was recommended (too much work!).

I am grateful to all those who contributed to this list. I am keeping it updated, roughly on a quarterly basis.

For global health movies, see this compilation of over 60 inspiring films!

Happy reading!

Author(s)	Book
Abu-Sada, Caroline	In the Eyes of Others: How People in Crises Perceive Humanitarian Aid
Acharya, Bhibav & Becker, Anne	Global Mental Health Training and Practice
Adams, Vincanne	Metrics: What Counts in Global Health
Adeyi, Olusoji	Global Health In Practice: Investing Amidst Pandemics, Denial Of Evidence, And Neo-dependency
Adler-Bolton, Beatrice & Vierkant, Artie	Health Communism: A Surplus Manifesto
Akbar, Arifa	Consumed: A Sister's Story
Alexander, Jessica	Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid
Anderson, Warwick	Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines
Andrews, Kehinde	The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World
Antia, Noshir	A Life of Change: The Autobiography of a Doctor
Anya, Ike	Small by Small: Becoming a Doctor in 1990s Nigeria
Arole, Rajanikant & Mabelle	Jamkhed: A Comprehensive Rural Health Project
Armytage, Rosita	Big Capital In An Unequal World
Atkinson, Anthony	Inequality: What Can Be Done?
Baker, Josephine	Fighting For Life
Bang, Rani	Putting Women First: Women and Health in a Rural Community
Banerjee, Abhijit & Duflo, Esther	Poor Economics
Banerjee, Abhijit & Duflo, Esther	Good Economics for Hard Times
Bashford, Alison	Imperial Hygiene: A Critical History of Colonialism, Nationalism and Public Health
Barber, Benjamin	Consumed
Bartolo, Pietro & Tilotta, Lidia	Tears of Salt: A Doctor's Story of the Refugee Crisis
Barry, John	The Great Influenza
Bass, Emily	To End A Plague
Beard, Mary	Women & Power: A Manifesto
Behrman, Greg	The Invisible People
Benatar, Solomon	Global Health and Global Health Ethics
Benjamin, Ruha	Viral Justice: How We Grow The World We Want
Benton, Adia	HIV Exceptionalism
Berkowitz, Aaron	One by One by One
Bhambra, Gurminder & Gebrial, Dalia & Nisanclogu, Kerem	Decolonising the University
Bhopal, Kalwant & Myers, Martin	Elite Universities and the Making of Privilege
Biehl, João & Petryna, Adriana	When People Come First
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle & Pillay, Yogan & Holtz, Timothy	Textbook of Global Health
Black, Benjamin	Belly Woman: Birth, Blood & Ebola: The Untold Story
Blackstock, Uche	Legacy
Block, Jennie; Lysaught, Therese & Martins, Alexandre	A Prophet to the Peoples: Paul Farmer's Witness and Theological Ethics
Bollyky, Thomas	Plagues and the Paradox of Progress
Brauman, Rony	Humanitaire : Le Dilemme
Breihl, Jaime	Critical Epidemiology and the People's Health
Bresnahan, Andrew & Brindamour, Mahli & Charles, Christopher	Upstream Medicine: Doctors for a Healthy Society
Brown, Damien	Band-Aid for a Broken Leg: Being a Doctor with No Borders
Brown, Jasmine	Twice as Hard
Budabin, Alexandra & Richey, Lisa Ann	Batman Saves The Congo
Buse, Kent; Mays, Nicholas; Colombini, Manuela; Fraser, Alec; Khan, Mishal; Walls, Helen	Making Health Policy, 3rd Edition
Cagle, Hugh	Assembling the Tropics: Science and Medicine in Portugal's Empire
Camus, Albert	The Plague
Capua, Ilaria	Circular Health: Empowering the One Health Revolution
Celi, Leo Anthony & Majumder Maimuna & Ordonez, Patricia & Osorio, Juan Sebastian & Paik, Kenneth & Somai, Melek	Leveraging Data Science For Global Health
Chambers, Robert	Whose Reality Counts?
Chigudu, Simukai	The Political Life of an Epidemic
Cleghorn, Elinor	Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-made World
Clinton, Chelsea & Sridhar, Devi	Governing Global Health
Collins, Charles & Green, Andrew	Valuing Health Systems: A Framework for Low and Middle Income Countries
Conrad, Joseph	Heart of Darkness
Connelly, Matthew	Fatal Misconception
Crane, Johanna	Scrambling for Africa: AIDS, Expertise, and the Rise of American Global Health Science
Crisp, Nigel	Turning The World Upside Down
Daar, Abdallah & Singer, Peter	The Grandest Challenge
Dallaire, Romeo	Shake Hands With The Devil
Davis, Angela	Are Prisons Obsolete?
Davis, Meg	The Uncounted: Politics of Data in Global Health
Davis, Mike	El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
de Haan, Arjan	How the Aid Industry Works
Deaton, Angus	The Great Escape-Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
Desowitz, Robert	The Malaria Capers
Diab, Jasmin Lilian	Dignity in Movement: Borders, Bodies and Rights
Dionne, Kim Yi	Doomed Interventions: The Failure of Global Responses to AIDS in Africa
Downs, Jim	Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
Doyal, Lesley & Pennell, Imogen	The Political Economy of Health
Dubos, Rene	The Mirage of Health
Dutt, Barkha	TO HELL AND BACK : Humans of COVID
Dye, Christopher	The Great Health Dilemma
Easterly, William	The Tyranny of Experts
Easterly, William	The White Man’s Burden
Eban, Katherine	Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom
Enkh-Amgalan, Handaa	Stigmatized
Epstein, Helen	The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa
Fadiman, Anne	The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Fanon, Frantz	The Wretched of the Earth
Fanon, Frantz	Black Skin, White Masks
Farmer, Paul	Infection and Inequalities
Farmer, Paul	Reimagining Global Health
Farmer, Paul	To Repair The World
Farmer, Paul	Pathologies of Power
Farmer, Paul	AIDS and Accusation
Farmer, Paul	Fevers, Feuds, And Diamonds
Farrar, Jeremy & Ahuja, Anjana	The Spike: The Virus vs. The People
Ferris, Ramesh	Better than a Cure: One Man's Journey to Free the World of Polio
Fifield, Adam	A Mighty Purpose How Jim Grant Sold the World on Saving Its Children
Flood, Colleen & Gross, Aeyal	The Right to Health at the Public/Private Divide
Flood, Colleen; Vanessa MacDonnell, Jane Philpott, Sophie Thériault, Sridhar Venkatapuram	Vulnerable: The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
Foege, William	House on Fire
Folbre, Nancy	Who Pays for the Kids?: Gender and the Structures of Constraint
France, David	How to Survive a Plague
Freire, Paulo	Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Frerichs, Ralph	Deadly River: Cholera and Cover-Up in Post-Earthquake Haiti
Freudenberg, Nicholas	Lethal But Legal
Galea, Sandro	The Contagion Next Time
Gates, Bill	How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
Gates, Melinda	The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
Garrett, Laurie	The Coming Plague
Garrett, Laurie	Betrayal of Trust
Gawande, Atul	Better
Gawande, Atul	Checklist Manifesto
Gehl, Lynn	Claiming Anishnaabe: Decolonizing the human spirit
George, Rose	The Big Necessity
Geronimus, Arline	Weathering
Ghosh, Amitav	The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
Giridharadas, Anand	Winners Take All
Gilmore, Ruth Wilson	Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation
Glassman, Amanda & Temin, Miriam	Millions Saved
Goodall, Jane & Abrams, Douglas	The Book of Hope
Goldhill, David	Catastrophic Care
Gostin, Lawrence & Meier, Benjamin Mason	Foundations of Global Health & Human Rights
Gostin, Lawrence	Global Health Security
Gostin, Lawrence	Global Health Law
Green, Monica (editor)	Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death
Hannah-Jones, Nikole (editor)	The 1619 Project
Harman, Sophie	Global Health Governance
Harris, Joseph	Achieving Access: Professional Movements and the Politics of Health Universalism
Harris, Matthew	Decolonizing Healthcare InnovationLow-Cost Solutions from Low-Income Countries
Harrison, Gordon	Mosquitoes, Malaria, and Man
Hernandez, Daisy	The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease
Hernandez, Jessica	Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science
Hewlett, Barry	Ebola, Culture and Politics: The Anthropology of an Emerging Disease
Hickel, Jason	The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets
Hochschild, Adam	King Leopold's Ghost
Hofman, Michiel & Au Sokhieng	The Politics of Fear
Hoen, Ellen 't	Private Patents and Public Health
Holmes, Seth	Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies
Horton, Richard	The COVID-19 Catastrophe: What's Gone Wrong and How to Stop It Happening Again
Hotez, Peter	The Deadly Rise of Anti-science
Hotez, Peter	Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel's Autism: My Journey as a Vaccine Scientist, Pediatrician, and Autism Dad
Hotez, Peter	Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-science
Howard, Jonathan	We Want Them Infected
Hujo, Katja & Carter, Maggie	Between Fault Lines And Front Lines
Hunleth, Jean	Children as Caregivers: The Global Fight against Tuberculosis and HIV in Zambia
Hymes, Robert & Green, Monica	New Evidence for the Dating and Impact of the Black Death in Asia
Ismail, Edna Adan	A Woman of Firsts: The true story of the midwife who built a hospital and changed the world
Jain, Yogesh & Sarah Nabia (editors)	Covid-19: A View from the Margins
Jamison, Kay Redfield	Fires In The Dark
Johnson, Stephen	Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer
Johnson, Stephen	The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic
Kabat, Geoffrey	Getting Risk Right
Kabeer, Naila	Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought
Keating, Conrad	Tore Godal and the Evolution of Global Health
Kelland, Kate	Disease X: The 100 Days Mission to End Pandemics
Keltner, Dacher	The Power Paradox
Kendi, Ibram	How to Be an Antiracist
Kerouedan, Dominique	Géopolitique de la santé mondiale
Keshavjee, Salmaan	Blind Spot: How Neoliberalism Infiltrated Global Health
Khan, Themrise; Kanakulya Dickson; Maïka Sondarjee	White Saviorism in International Development
Keyes, Katherine & Galea, Sandro	Population Health Science
Kidder, Tracy	Mountains Beyond Mountains
Klein, Naomi	This Changes Everything
Krieger, Nancy	Epidemiology and the People's Health
Krishna, Anirudh	One Illness Away
Krishnan, Vidya	Phantom Plague
Kucharski, Adam	The Rules of Contagion
Labonte, Ronald & Ruckert, Arne	Health Equity in a Globalizing Era
Lachenal, Guillaume	The Doctor Who Would Be King
Laharia, Chandrakant; Kang, Gagandeep & Guleria, Randeep	Till We Win: India's Fight Against The Covid-19 Pandemic
Lakoff, Andrew	Unprepared Global Health in a Time of Emergency
Lamb, Christina	Our Bodies, Their Battlefield
Levin, Cynthia Changyit	From Changing Diapers to Changing the World
Lewis, Michael	The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
Lewis, Stephen	Race Against Time
Linton, Samara & Walcott, Rianna	The Colour of Madness
Lipsky, Michael	Street-Level Bureaucracy
Livingston, Julie	Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic
Lister, John	Health Policy Reform: Global Health Versus Private Profit
Loomis, Joshua	Epidemics: The Impact of Germs and Their Power over Humanity
Lougheed, Kathryn	Catching Breath: The Making and Unmaking of Tuberculosis
Luhrmann, TM	Our Most Troubling Madness
MacIntyre, Raina	Dark Winter: An insider’s guide to pandemics and biosecurity
Madan, TN	Doctors and Society
Marmot, Michael	The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World
Marya, Rupa & Patel, Raj	Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
Maskalyk, James	Six Months in Sudan
Mason, Katherine	Infectious Change: Reinventing Chinese Public Health After an Epidemic
Mayblin, Lucy	Asylum after Empire
Maynard, Robin & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson	Rehearsals for Living
Maxmen, Amy	Ebola's Unpaid Heroes: How billions in aid skips over those at the frontline
Maynard, Robyn & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson	Rehearsals for Living
Mazzucato, Mariana & Collington, Rosie	The Big Con
Mbali, Mandisa	South African AIDS Activism and Global Health Politics
McGoey, Linsey	No Such Thing as a Free Gift
McGuire, James	Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America
McInnes, Colin; Lee, Kelley & Youde, Jeremy (editors)	The Oxford Handbook of Global Health Politics
McKenna, Maryn	Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats
McNeill, William Hardy	Plagues and Peoples
Meier, Benjamin Mason & Gostin, Lawrence	Human Rights in Global Health: Rights-Based Governance for a Globalizing World
Melrose, Dianna	Bitter pills : medicines and the Third World poor
Mendenhall, Emily	Unmasked: COVID, Community, and the Case of Okoboji
Mendenhall, Emily & Nichter, Mark	Rethinking Diabetes: Entanglements with Trauma, Poverty, and HIV
Merson, Michael	The AIDS Pandemic: Searching for a Global Response
Messac, Luke	No More to Spend: Neglect and the Construction of Scarcity in Malawi's History of Health Care
Metzl, Jonathan	Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
Mialon, Melissa	Big Food & Cie
Minn, Pierre	Where They Need Me
Mitchell-Walthour, Gladys	The Politics of Survival: Black Women Social Welfare Beneficiaries in Brazil and the United States
Mohapatra, Seema & Wiley, Lindsay	Feminist Judgments: Health Law Rewritten
Morris, JN	Uses of Epidemiology
Moses, Dirk; Duranti, Marco; Burke, Roland	Decolonization, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Global Human Rights Politics
Mugyenyi, Peter	Genocide by Denial: How Profiteering from HIV/AIDS Killed Millions
Mukhopadhyay, Baijayanta	Country of Poxes: Three Germs and the Taking of Territory
Mukwege, Denis	Plaidoyer pour la vie
Munk, Nina	The Idealist
Mukherjee, Joia	An Introduction to Global Health Delivery
Myers, Samuel & Frumkin, Howard	Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves
Nabhan, Chadi	Toxic Exposure
Nattrass, Nicoli	Mortal Combat: AIDS Denialism and the Struggle for Antiretrovirals in South Africa
Nayyar, Geeta; Castles, Tom; Murtha, Jack	Dead Wrong: Diagnosing and Treating Healthcare's Misinformation Illness
Neely, Abigail	Reimagining Social Medicine from the South
Nguyen, Eric & Burman, Scott	White Savior (Comic)
Nott, David	War Doctor: Surgery on the front line
Novogratz, Jacqueline	The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
Noy, Shiri	Banking on Health The World Bank and Health Sector Reform in Latin America
Nundy, Shantanu	Care After Covid
Nunes, Joao	Security, Emancipation and the Politics of Health
Orbinski, James	An Imperfect Offering
Oshinsky, David	Polio: An American Story
Osmundson, Joseph	Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between
Packard, Randall	A History of Global Health
Packard, Randall	The Making of a Tropical Disease
Paris, Django & Winn, M	Humanizing Research
Patel, Raj	Stuffed and Starved
Pearlman, Wendy	We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria
Pepin, Jacques	The Origins of AIDS
Petchesky, Rosalind	Global Prescriptions
People's Health Movement, Medact, Third World Network, Health Poverty Action, Medico International, ALAMES, Viva Sud, Sama	Global Health Watch 6: In the Shadow of the Pandemic
Phillips, Ben	How To Fight Inequality And Why That Fight Needs You
Picard, Andre	Matters of Life and Death
Picard, Andre	Neglected No More
Piot, Peter	No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses
Pisani, Elizabeth	The Wisdom of Whores
Prince, Ruth	Making and Unmaking Public Health in Africa
Quick, Jonathan	The End of Epidemics
Quammen, David	Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
Rajan, Raghuram	The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind
Rao, Sujatha	Do We Care?
Raviglione, Mario; Tediosi, Fabrizio; Villa, Simone; Casamitjana, Nuria; Placencia, Antoni	Global Health Essentials
Rawls, John	A Theory of Justice
Raworth, Kate	Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
Ray, Keisha	Black Health: The Social, Political, and Cultural Determinants of Black People's Health
Ray, Victor	On Critical Race Theory
Reddy, KS	Making Health in India
Reid, Nova	The Good Ally
Reperant, Leslie	Fatal Jump: Tracking the Origins of Pandemics
Richardson, Eugene	Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health
Robin, Marie-Monique	La fabrique des pandémies (French)
Robinson, Kim Stanley	The Ministry for the Future
Rodney, Walter	How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Rosling, Hans	Factfulness
Rosenberg, Mark	Real Collaboration
Roy, Arundhati	My Seditious Heart
Roy, Victor	Capitalizing A Cure
Riley, James	Rising Life Expectancy: A Global History
Rukmini, S	Whole Numbers and Half Truths: What Data Can and Cannot Tell Us About Modern India
Russell, Sharman Apt	Within Our Grasp: Childhood Malnutrition Worldwide and the Revolution Taking Place to End It
Ryan, Frank	Tuberculosis – The Greatest Story Never Told
Sainath, P	Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India's Poorest Districts
Sanders, David	The struggle for health: Medicine and the politics of underdevelopment (second edition)
Sangaramoorthy, Thurka	Landscapes of Care: Immigration and Health in Rural America
Schama, Simon	Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations
Sen, Amartya	Development as Freedom
Sen, Amartya	The Idea of Justice
Sen, Gita	Development, Crises and Alternative Visions
Sengupta, Amit	Political Journeys in Health
Shah, Sonia	Pandemic
Shaheen-Hussain, Samir	Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children in Canada
Shankar, Arjun	Brown Saviors and Their Others: Race, Caste, Labor, and the Global Politics of Help in India
Shilts, Randy	And The Band Played On
Shrime, Mark	Solving For Why
Siddiqi, Sameen; Mataria, Awad; Rouleau, Katherine; Iqbal, Meesha	Making Health Systems Work In Low and Middle Income Countries
Sinclair, Upton	The Jungle
Skloot, Rebecca	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Skolnik, Richard	Global Health 101
Smilios, Maria	The Black Angels: The untold story of the nurses who helped cure tuberculosis
Smith, Lindia	Decolonizing Methodologies
Solnit, Rebecca & Thelma Young Lutunatabua	Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
Sontag, Susan	Illness as Metaphor
Sowemimo, Annabel	Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare
Sridhar, Devi	Preventable: How a Pandemic Changed the World & How to Stop the Next One
Sridhar, Devi	The Battle Against Hunger
Stanley, Jason	How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
Steinberg, Jonny	Three Letter Plague
Stepan, Nancy Leys	Eradication: Ridding the World of Diseases Forever?: Ridding the World of Disease Forever?
Strathdee, Steffanie & Patterson, Thomas	The Perfect Predator
Steere-Williams, Jacob	The Filth Disease: Typhoid Fever and the Practices of Epidemiology in Victorian England
Stuckler, David & Basu, Sanjay	The Body Economic
Supari, Siti	It's Time for the World to Change in the Spirit of Dignity, Equity and Transparency
Szreter, Simon	Health and Wealth: Studies in History and Policy
Taiwo, Olufemi	Against Decolonization
Taranath, Anu	Beyond Guilt Trips: Mindful Travel in an Unequal World
Thiong’o, Ngugi wa	Secure the Base: Making Africa Visible in the Globe
Thrasher, Steven	The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
Thunberg, Greta	The Climate Book
Tracey, Kevin	Fatal Sequence: The Killer Within
Tripathi, Amrita, Abhijit Nadkarni & Soumitra Pathare	Life Interrupted: Understanding India's Suicide Crisis
Tumbe, Chinmay	Age of Pandemics
Varlik, Nukhet	Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World
Venkat, Bharat	At the Limits of Cure
Venkatapuram, Sridhar	Health Justice: An Argument from the Capabilities Approach
Veeraraghavan, Rajesh	Patching Development: Information Politics and Social Change in India
Verghese, Abraham	Cutting For Stone
Verghese, Abraham	My Own Country
Vijayakumar, Gowri	At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis
Vince, Gaia	Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World
Vineis, Paulo	Health Without Borders: Epidemics in the Era of Globalization
Vuong, Ocean	On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Waitzkin, Howard & Alina Perez & Matt Anderson	Social Medicine and the Coming Transformation
Walsh, Sinead & Johnson	Getting to Zero
Wald, Priscilla	Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative
Waldron, Ingrid	There’s Something In The Water
Walia, Harsha	Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
Walker, Darren	From Generosity to Justice: A New Gospel of Wealth
Walt, Gill	Health Policy: An Introduction to Process and Power
Warah, Rasna	Lords of Impunity
Wardere, Hibo	Cut: One Woman's Fight Against FGM in Britain Today
Washington, Harriet	Medical Apartheid
Webb, James	Humanity's Burden: A Global History of Malaria
Weber, Leanne	Globalization and Borders
Wendland, Claire	A Heart For the Work
Wenham, Clare	Feminist Global Health Security
Werner, David	Helping Health Workers Learn
Werner, David & Sanders, David	Questioning the Solution: The Politics of Primary Health Care and Child Survival
Werner, David	Where There is No Doctor
White, Alexandre	Epidemic Orientalism: Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease
Wilkerson, Isabel	Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Williams, Brian	The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal
Wilkinson, David & Pickett, Kate	The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
Willem, Jean Pierre	Et la paix, docteur? : un médecin sur tous les fronts
Woodward, Bob	Rage
Wolff, Jonathan	The Human Right To Health
World Health Organization	Constitution of the World Health Organization
Wray, Britt	Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis
Wunsch, Hannah	The Autumn Ghost: How the Battle Against a Polio Epidemic Revolutionized Modern Medical Care
Yanguas, Pablo	Why We Lie About Aid
Yamin, Alicia	Power, Suffering, and the Struggle for Dignity Human Rights Frameworks for Health and Why They Matter
Yasmin, Seema	The Impatient Dr. Lange: One Man's Fight to End the Global HIV Epidemic
Yasmin, Seema	If God Is A Virus
Yengde, Suraj	Caste Matters
Youde, Jeremy	Global Health Governance
Zakaria, Rafia	Against White Feminism
Zinsser, Hans	Rats, Lice and History
Zurbrigg, Sheila	Rakku's Story : Structures of Ill-health and the Source of Change

List updated: Sept 2023

Madhukar Pai (He/Him)

Associate Director, McGill International TB Centre

I am a Professor and a Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology & Global Health at McGill University, Montreal. I serve as the Associate Director of the McGill International TB Centre. URL: http://www.paitbgroup.org/

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Dhruv Mankad

about 5 years ago

I would like to add:

1. Doyal, Lesley; Pennel Imogen -The Political Economy of Health, Pluto Press, London, 1979 . (Altogether a stimulating book and a worthy contribution to current debates on the politics of health Lancet)

This book inspired many of us to gaze at an ill person attending ones clinic, a group of people you interact, gender you have and society in which you live, with the glasses of Social Science, Politics and Economics.

2. Ehrenrich, Barbara and English, Deirdre ; For Her Own Good - 150 years if the Experts advice to women. Pluto Press, London, 1979 (Again, this work laid down foundation of non-pure scientific nature of medical science, particularly about women's body, soul and nature, her social identity and her illnesses. It pushed the women's health movement globally.)

3. Sujatha V., Abraham, Leena (Ed.); Medical Pluralism in Contemporary India, Orient Black Swan, Hyderabad (2012)

(This book adds on a historical, cultural and in someway a subaltern political perspective about Health, illnesses and health care in the persisting existence of 'other', 'alternate', 'indigenous', 'ancient or traditional' medicine in the predominant 'biomedicine', 'modern or scientific' medicine. Though it is contextually placed in Indian setting, it's application is equally relevant, globally)

Dhruv Mankad

Anna Schurmann

about 5 years ago

And here is my list!! http://www.publichealthstrategies.net/most-inspiring-public-health-books/

Onaoluwa Abimbola

over 3 years ago

Now, this sounds like a birthday wish list. Great collection here. Will definitely add to my library from these.