January 2012
A PROJECT OF THE CUGH/GHEC
A LIBRARY OF MONOGRAPHS IN GLOBAL HEALTH
Neal Nathanson and Thomas Hall, group leaders
The goals of this project
We hope to create for the CUGH/GHEC website a selective list of monographs in
global health that (a) includes writings of thought leaders in the field; (b) includes
different perspectives and represents both sides of major controversies; (c)
covers the “territory” of global health broadly defined; and (d) serves the
interests and needs of students, faculty, and experts in global health. The aim is
to produce a list that will provide some important, provocative, or interesting
books in each subject category.
Excluded from this list are texts, handbooks, manuals, and the like; articles in
journals; and online unpublished materials. For practical purposes, this list is
limited to books that can be purchased on the Amazon.com website (or other
similar websites), and are usually available as paperbacks, often at reduced
prices.
We recognize that new books on global health are being published at a rapid
pace. Therefore this list will need to be updated periodically, at least every two
years.
Process
We solicited a group of 24 volunteers (13 faculty and 11 students) who agreed to
participate in the rating process; their names are shown in Table 1 below. Based
on several existing lists of books and reviewer suggestions we assembled a list
of about 150 titles and sorted them into 15 different subject categories, shown in
Table 2 below. Each book was accompanied by a short description that enabled
the participants to evaluate it. Alternatively, we advised participants to access
Amazon.com, and use the “look inside” function to access the table of contents.
We believed that these information sources would permit participants to give
each book one of three possible ratings:
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definitely include
definitely exclude
marginal decision
We provided the participants with a set of guidelines.
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Reasons to include a book:
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A book by a “thought leader” in the field
Book articulates an important view or perspective about a specific area of
global health
It’s the best (or one of the few best) available book in this specific category
Reasons to exclude a book:
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It doesn’t meet the general guidelines as a monograph relevant to global
health
It’s really a textbook, a handbook, an instructional manual, or the like
Among several similar books in a category, there are other better books listed
The rating questionnaire was administered via SurveyMonkey. The original list
had about 150 entries and based on the survey results, we eliminated about 65
entries.
Summary of list
The present list of monographs includes about 85 entries in 15 subject
categories. Because a few books overlapped several categories they are listed
more than once.
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TABLE 1 LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
FACULTY
Neil Arya
narya@uwaterloo.ca
Twee Bui
buit@upmc.edu
Kevin Chan
KevinJChan@AOL.com
Anne Fanning
Anne.fanning@ualberta.ca
Thomas Hall
thall@epi.ucsf.edu
Anne McCarthy
aMcCarthy@OttawaHospital.on.ca
Neal Nathanson
nathansn@upenn.edu
Shawna O’Hearn
Shawna.ohearn@DAL.CA
Kevin Pottie
kpottie@uottawa.ca
Ron Pust
rpust@u.arizona.edu
Richard Skolnik
rskolnik@prb.org
Anvar Velji
Anvar.Velji@kp.org
Karen Yeates
yeates@queensu.ca
STUDENTS
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TABLE 1 LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
Jonathan Abelson
jonathanabelson@gmail.com
Amol Agarwal
agaa@mail.med.upenn.edu
Genevieve Bois
genevieve.bois@umontreal.ca
Nora Burns
n.k.burns@gmail.com
Eileen Cheung
eileen.cheung@gmail.com
Robin Dunn
robin.hall.dunn@gmail.com
Danielle Graham
Daniellegraham593@gmail.com
Yoonhee Ha
hayp@mail.med.upenn.edu
Jennifer Hulme
jennifer.hulme@mail.mcgill.ca
Mary Maclennan
m.e.maclennan@lse.ac.uk
Bulat Ziganshin
bazign@gmail.com
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TABLE 2 LIST OF SUBJECT CATEGORIES
To go directly to a subject category, use the mouse to share the
underlined title; right click on mouse; left click on “open hyperlink”; to
return to this table click on “undo” (reverse arrow on your toolbar)
GENERAL REFERENCES
GENERAL REFERENCES
NOVELS, BIOGRAPHIES, CASE STUDIES, HISTORIES
NOVELS, BIOGRAPHIES, CASE STUDIES, HISTORIES
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASES: INJURIES, MENTAL HEALTH,
MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH, NUTRITION
NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASES:INJURIES, MENTAL HEALTH,
MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH, NUTRITION
ENVIRONMENTAL AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
ENVIRONMENTAL AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
NATURAL AND HUMANITARIAN CRISES
NATURAL AND HUMANITARIAN CRISES
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND POVERTY
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND POVERTY
SOCIAL DETERMINANTS, SOCIAL ISSUES
SOCIAL DETERMINANTS, SOCIAL ISSUES
DEMOGRAPHIC ISSUES AND POLICIES
DEMOGRAPHIC ISSUES AND POLICIES
GLOBAL ECOSYSTEMS
GLOBAL ECOSYSTEMS
HEALTH SYSTEMS, HEALTH POLICIES, HEALTH ORGANIZATIONS
HEALTH SYSTEMS, HEALTH POLICIES, HEALTH ORGANIZATIONS
COMMUNITY HEALTH, PRIMARY CARE
COMMUNITY HEALTH, PRIMARY CARE
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TABLE 2 LIST OF SUBJECT CATEGORIES
To go directly to a subject category, use the mouse to share the
underlined title; right click on mouse; left click on “open hyperlink”; to
return to this table click on “undo” (reverse arrow on your toolbar)
HUMAN RIGHTS, JUSTICE, EQUITY, ETHICS
HUMAN RIGHTS, JUSTICE, EQUITY, ETHICS
WORKFORCE ISSUES
WORKFORCE ISSUES
CAREERS IN GLOBAL HEALTH, TRAINING FOR HEALTH WORKERS
CAREERS IN GLOBAL HEALTH, TRAINING FOR HEALTH
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SUBJECT
CATEGORY
GENERAL
REFERENCES
BOOK TITLES AND AUTHORS
Diamond J. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human
Societies. London: Random House, 1997. - Seeks to
answer the question of why the peoples of certain continents
succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or
displacing their peoples.
Garrett L. Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public
Health. New York: Hyperion, 2000. - A long monograph on
global health and its current status, by a journalist turned
advocate.
Jamison D, Breman J, Measham A, et al. Priorities in
Health. Washington DC: World Bank, 2006. - Companion
guide to 'Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries,
2nd edition' which distills the contents of the larger volume into
an easily read format.
Levine R, Kinder M. Millions Saved: Proven Successes in
Global Health. Washington D.C.: Center for Global
Development; 2004. - Case studies of successful
interventions in global health, an important message.
NOVELS,
BIOGRAPHIES,
CASE STUDIES,
HISTORIES
Achebe C. Things Fall Apart. London: Anchor Books, 1994.
- A story of a man’s destruction as he is caught in the clash
between tribal culture and the intrusion of European
missionaries.
Beah I. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a boy soldier. New
York: Sarah Crichton Books, 2007. - This is how some wars
are now fought, by boy soldiers, hopped up on drugs and
wielding AK-47s.
Fadiman A. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down.
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1998. - Lia Lee, a 3month-old with epilepsy, becomes the center of a tug-of-war
between her parents – refugees from Laos – and US
physicians who want to use Western medicine to treat her.
Fink S. War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival.
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New York: Public Affairs, 2004. - The story of a handful of
young physicians who are trapped in 1992 in the embattled
enclave of Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Gourevitch P. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We
Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda. New
York: Picador, 1999. - A chilling account of the genocide of
the Tutsi minority by the Hutu majority.
Kidder T. Mountains Beyond Mountains: Healing the
World: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer. New York: Random
House, 2003. - A great read that captures the early biography
of a global health leader who has become a legend in his own
time.
Schweitzer A, Bultman LA, Carter J, Miller RS. Out of My
Life and Thought: An Autobiography. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1998. - A classic book by a
pioneer in global health.
COMMUNICABLE
DISEASES
Abraham T. Twenty-First Century Plague: The story of
SARS. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. The sequential history of SARS, severe acute respiratory
syndrome, which exemplifies how a zoonotic virus can cross
into humans and cause a worldwide pandemic in weeks.
Epstein H. The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the
Fight Against AIDS in Africa. New York: Farrar Straus and
Giroux, 2007. - A somewhat controversial book that attempts
to explain why HIV spread - via sexual networks - more rapidly
in some African countries than in others.
Foege WH. House on Fire: the Fight to Eradicate Smallpox.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2011. - An
engaging memoir by one of the leaders in the smallpox
eradication program.
Garrett L. The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases
in a World out of Balance. New York: Farrar, Strauss
Group, 1994. - A magisterial overview of emerging and reemerging infections and the threat they pose to global health.
Henderson DA. Smallpox - The Death of a Disease: the
Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer. Amherst,
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NY: Prometheus Books, 2009. - A fascinating personal story
by the leader of the WHO smallpox eradication team of the
obstacles and ultimate success of the eradication program.
Kennedy P. The Fatal Sleep. Edinburgh: Luath Press Ltd,
2007. - A Scottish neurologist describes the history of African
trypanosomiasis and the efforts to control this devastating
disease.
Lewis S. Race Against Time. Toronto: House of Annasi,
2005. – Stephen Lewis, an eloquent advocate, describes
efforts to implement the Millennium Goals of 2000.
Packard RM. The Making of a Tropical Disease. A Short
History of Malaria. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 2007.
- A scholarly account by an eminent medical historian of the
efforts – partially successful – to control one of the great
scourges of the developing world.
Shah S. The Fever: How Malaria has Ruled Humankind for
500,000 Years. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
- A journalist provides her view of the history of malaria and
efforts to eradicate it.
NONCOMMUNICA
BLE DISEASES:
INJURIES,
MENTAL HEALTH,
MATERNAL AND
CHILD HEALTH,
NUTRITION
Fogel, RW. The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death,
1700-2100: Europe, America, and the Third World.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. - A
scholarly investigation of measures of health and nutrition as a
proxy for economic development by a Nobel Prize-winning
economic historian.
Levy BS, Sidel V (Editors). War and Public Health. 2nd
edition. Washington DC: American Public Health
Association, 2008. - Comprehensive examination of the
relationship between war and public health which documents
the public health consequences of war and describes what
health professionals can do to minimize these consequences
and even help prevent war altogether.
Werner D, Sanders D. Questioning the Solution: The
Politics of Primary Health Care and Child Survival. Palo
Alto, CA: HealthWrights, 1996. - This analysis questions why
more than 10 million children die every year from preventable
diseases, and challenges conventional primary health care
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strategies.
ENVIRONMENTAL
AND
OCCUPATIONAL
HEALTH
Gore A. An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency
of Global Warming and What We Can Do about It. New
York: Rodale Press, 2006. - A somewhat controversial view
of global warming with major political overtones.
Heymann J (Editor) Global Inequalities at Work: Work’s
Impact on the Health of Individuals, Families, and
Societies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. - A
global map of the relationship between work and health.
Lomborg B. The Skeptical Environmentalist. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2001. - A former member of
Greenpeace challenges widely-held views that the environment
is being gradually degraded, with massive documentation to
support his skepticism.
McMichael A. Planetary Overload: Global Environmental
Change and the Health of the Human Species. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1993. - An examination of the
degradation of the earth’s ecosystems and its potential
devastating effect on human health.
Strong M. Where on Earth Are We Going? Toronto: Vintage
Canada, 2001. - An apocalyptic prophecy for the future of life
on earth and a passionate call for preservation of the
environment.
NATURAL AND
HUMANITARIAN
CRISES
Fink S. War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival.
New York: Public Affairs, 2003. - Recounts experiences and
professional, ethical, and personal lessons learned when in
April 1992, a handful of young physicians was trapped along
with 50,000 men, women, and children in the embattled
enclave of Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Gourevitch P. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We
Will be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda. New
York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1998. - Details the anatomy of
the April 1994 war in Rwanda, providing a vivid history of the
tragedy's background, and an unforgettable account of its
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aftermath.
Levy BS, Sidel V (Editors). War and Public Health. 2nd
edition. Washington DC: American Public Health
Association, 2008. - Comprehensive examination of the
relationship between war and public health which documents
the public health consequences of war and describes what
health professionals can do to minimize these consequences
and even help prevent war altogether.
Levy BS, Sidel V. Social Injustice and Public Health.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. - Comprehensive
review by 48 authors of the various aspects of social injustice
and its relationship to public health.
Rieff D. A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002. - Reveals how
humanitarian organizations are often betrayed and misused,
and have increasingly lost sight of their purpose.
ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT
AND POVERTY
Berkman L, Kawachi I (Editors). Social Epidemiology. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2000. A detailed and
scholarly study of the social determinants of health.
Calderisi R. The Trouble with Africa: Why Foreign Aid Isn’t
Working. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. - Calderisi,
Collier, and Easterly are all economists who have spent a
career working on global aid in low-income countries for donor
agencies, particularly the World Bank, and are highly critical of
its failures.
Collier P. The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries
are Failing and What Can be Done about it. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2007. - Calderisi, Collier, and Easterly are
all economists who have spent a career working on global aid
in low income countries for donor agencies, particularly the
World Bank, and are highly critical of its failures.
Collins D. Portfolios of the Poor: How the World’s Poor
Live on $2 a Day. Princeton: Princeton University Press,
2009. - A description of life on $2 a day, the fate of almost 2
billion people.
Easterly W. The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s
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Effort to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little
Good. New York: Penguin Press, 2006. - Calderisi, Collier,
and Easterly are all economists who have spent a career
working on global aid in low income countries for donor
agencies, particularly the World Bank, and are highly critical of
its failures.
Farmer P. Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights,
and the New War on the Poor. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2003. - Harrowing tales of life and death
under extreme circumstances are used to interrogate our
understanding of human rights.
Moyo D. Dead Aid. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2009. - A brilliant Zambian economist who writes a highly
critical analysis of the failure of international aid with her
proposals for future investments in low-income countries.
Yunus M. Banker to the Poor: Microlending and the Battle
against World Poverty. New York: Foreign Affairs, 2003. -A Bengali economist and Nobel laureate who spearheaded
microlending and established the Grameen bank in
Bangladesh.
Sachs J. The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for
Our Time. New York: Penguin Press, 2005. - A “rock star”
economist advances his (controversial) analysis and
prescription for the poverty problem in low-income countries.
Sen A. Development as Freedom. New York: Anchor, 2000.
- A paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic
development for rich and poor in the 21st century, by a Nobel
prize-winning economist turned ethicist.
SOCIAL
DETERMINANTS,
SOCIAL ISSUES
Bigby J. Cross-Cultural Medicine. Philadelphia: American
College of Physicians, 2001. - Provides guidelines for care
and background information on various racial, ethnic, and
cultural groups, their general health problems and risks, and
spiritual and religious issues.
Hahn RA (Editor) Anthropology in Public Health: Bridging
Differences in Culture and Society. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1989. - Examines critical role of
anthropology in four crucial public health domains, viz, (1)
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understanding of public health problems, (2) design of health
interventions, (3) evaluations of health initiatives, and (4)
critiques of health policies and reforms.
Helman CG. CultUre, Health, and Illness, 4th edition.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. - This work is a
leading exegesis on the role of cultural and social factors in
health, illness, and medical care.
Marmot M. The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing
Affects our Health and Longevity. New York: Henry Holt,
2004. - This authoritative analysis presents compelling
evidence which demonstrates that status is a major cause of ill
health.
Taylor D, Taylor C. Just and Lasting Change: When
Communities Own Their Futures. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2002. - Presents guidelines for
transforming communities rapidly, cost-effectively, and in locally
appropriate ways, based on evidence from many parts of the
world.
DEMOGRAPHIC
ISSUES AND
POLICIES
Engelman R. More: Population, Nature, and What Women
Want. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2010. - A view of the
population problem illustrated with personal anecdotes and a
realistic view of culturally-appropriate methods of contraception.
Livi-Bacci M. A Concise History of World Population.
Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2006. - An updated
version of this standard history of the world’s population with
projections to 2050.
Montgomery M, Stren R, Cohen B, et al. Cities
Transformed: Demographic Change and Its Implications in
the Developing World. Washington, DC: National
Academies Press, 2003. - A study of progressive
urbanization and its effects upon life and health.
Segal SJ. Under the Banyan Tree: A Population
Scientist’s Odyssey. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2003. - A historical account of demography and attempts to
control the growth of the population, particularly in low-income
settings.
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GLOBAL
ECOSYSTEMS
Butterly JR, Shepherd J. Hunger. Hanover: Dartmouth
College Press, 2010. - An exposition that supports the
proposal that hunger is more the result of maldistribution rather
than true shortages, with its implications for society.
Epstein PR, Ferber D. Changing Planet, Changing Health.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. - An eyeopening exposition of the effects of climate change upon
human health, with individual and compelling anecdotes.
George R. The Big Necessity: the Unmentionable World of
Human Waste and Why it Matters. New York: Henry Holt
and Co, 2008. - An utterly original exploration of the world of
human waste that will surprise, outrage, and entertain.
Gore A. An Inconvenient Truth: the Planetary Emergency
of Global Warming and What We Can Do about It. New
York: Rodale Press. - A politically-tinged discussion of
climate change, the evidence of its reality, and the potential
implications for policy and action.
Roberts P. The End of Food. Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
2008. - The failures of the modern food system illustrated by
various crises that have left many populations vulnerable.
Solomon S. Water. New York: Harper Collins, 2010. - A
fresh perspective of human history informed by the struggle for
water, with implications for the future.
HEALTH
SYSTEMS,
HEALTH
POLICIES,
HEALTH
ORGANIZATIONS
Crisp N. Turning the World Upside Down: the Search for
Global Health in the 21st Century. London: Royal Society
of Medicine Press, 2010. - Views by a leading health
executive as to how western scientific medicine, which has
served us so well in the 20th Century, needs to adapt and
evolve to cope with the demands of the 21st Century.
Fisher, J. Non Governments: NGOs and the Political
Development of the Third World. Sterling, VA: Kumarian
Press, 1998. - Complete overview of the composition and
types of today’s non-government organizations.
Gwatkin DR, Wagstaff A, Yazbeck AS (Editors). Reaching
the Poor with Health, Nutrition, and Population Services:
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What Works, What Doesn’t, and Why. Washington D.C.:
The World Bank, 2005. - Eleven case studies are presented
that document how well or poorly health, nutrition, and
population programs have reached disadvantaged groups in
the countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
McKee M, Garner P, Stott R (Eds.) International Cooperation in Health. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Explores impact of globalization, economic policies, war and
violence, trade, and reproductive ideologies on global health
and health services.
Taylor D, Taylor C. Just and Lasting Change: When
Communities Own Their Futures. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2002. - Presents guidelines for
transforming communities rapidly, cost-effectively, and in locally
appropriate ways, based on evidence from many parts of the
world.
Walley J, Wright J, Hubley J. Public Health: An Action
Guide to Improving Health in Developing CoUntries.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. - Explains how to
use public health approaches to develop effective health
programs and provides practical methods for assessing health
needs and evaluating services.
COMMUNITY
HEALTH,
PRIMARY CARE
Arole M, Arole R. Jamkhed: a Comprehensive Rural Health
Project. Maharashtra, India, 1994. - Tells the compelling
story of a young Indian physician couple who developed a
sustainable community-based primary health program in one of
the poorest parts of India.
Jenkins J, Maphorogo S, Sutter E (Editors) The Community
Is My University. Amsterdam: KIT Publishers, 2004. Describes the efforts, successes, pitfalls, and struggles to
achieve successful community participation in a trachoma
control program in a province in South Africa.
Smillie I. Freedom from Want: the Remarkable Success
Story of BRAC, the Global Grassroots Organization that's
Winning the Fight against Poverty. Stirling, VA: Kumarian
Press, 2009. - Traces BRAC’s evolution from a small relief
operation into the largest and most variegated social NGO
experiment in the developing world.
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Taylor D, Taylor C. Just and Lasting Change: When
Communities Own Their Futures. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2002. - Presents guidelines for
transforming communities rapidly, cost-effectively, and in locally
appropriate ways, based on evidence from many parts of the
world.
HUMAN RIGHTS,
Evans T. Challenging Inequities in Health: From Ethics to
JUSTICE, EQUITY, Action. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. - Brings
ETHICS
new perspectives on the concept of health equity, empirical
evidence on the scale and nature of health inequities in twelve
countries, and assessments of the associated policy
developments and their implications for the future.
Farmer, P. Pathologies of Power. Berkeley, CA: University
of California Press, 2003. - Uses harrowing stories of life-and
death - to interrogate our understanding of human rights and
challenges conventional thinking about relationships between
injustice and health.
Farmer P. Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. - Powerfully
demonstrates how and why infectious diseases target the poor
as a result of social and economic inequalities.
Heymann J. Global Inequalities at Work: Work’s Impact on
the Health of Individuals, Families, and Societies. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2003. - Drawing from studies done
around the world, this book critically examines the many ways
in which work is affecting health around the world.
Kim J, Millin JV, Gershman J, et al (Editors). Dying for
Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor.
Monroe: Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 2003. Five-part, sixteen-chapter, multi-authored book that presents a
thoroughly researched analysis of global health and inequality
at end of the 20th century.
Kristof ND, WuDunn S. Half the Sky: Turning Oppression
into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. New York: Knopf,
2009. - A passionate call to arms against our era’s most
pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and
girls in the developing world.
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Orbinski J. An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for
the 21st Century. New York: Walker & Co, 2008. - A searing
personal memoir by a leading humanitarian activist that is also
an urgent call to confront suffering in its many forms.
WORKFORCE
ISSUES
Joint Learning Initiative. Human Resources for Health:
Overcoming the Crisis. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 2004. - Consortium of 100+ health leaders analyzes
many faceted problems affecting the health workforce,
especially in the world’s poorest countries, and makes
recommendations for action.
Rosenberg ML, Hayes ES, McIntyre MH, et al. Real
Collaboration: What it takes for global health to succeed.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. - Practical
monograph that focuses on what might be the most important
lesson of the last fifty years: that collaboration is the best way to
make health resources count for disadvantaged people around
the world.
CAREERS IN
GLOBAL HEALTH,
TRAINING FOR
HEALTH
WORKERS
Drain PK, Huffman SA, Pirtle S, et al. Caring for the World:
a Guidebook to Global Health Opportunities. Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 2009. - Assembles stories,
experience, and advice of prominent global health practitioners
for health care workers who are interested in - or already are improving the lives of people throughout the world.
Evert J, Mautner D, Hoffman I, et al. (Editors). Developing
Global Health Curricula at US Medical Schools. San
Franciso, Global Health Education Consortium, 2006. Guidelines, now being updated, that can help students and
faculty develop a global health educational program.
Kohls LR. Survival Kit for Overseas Living. Yarmouth:
Intercultural Press, 1996. - Provides information about the
challenges of moving to a new country: culture shock,
stereotyping, misperceptions, misunderstandings, and the tools
needed to overcome obstacles and prepare for a rewarding and
successful experience.
McKenna M. Beating back the devil. On the Front Lines
with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence
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Service. New York: Free Press, 2004. - A journalist
describes the work of Epidemic Intelligence Officers who, with
bags packed on standby, are often dispatched with little lead
time or information about the epidemic they are likely to
encounter.
O’Neil Jr E. A Practical Guide to Global Health Service.
Washington DC: American Medical Association, 2006. Profiles approximately 300 organizations that place health
service volunteers and provides guidance about direct action
and how one can safely and effectively engages in medical
volunteering.
Osborn G, Ohmans P. Finding Work in Global Health.
Washington DC: Global Health Council, 2004. - A practical
guide for jobseekers or anyone who wants to make the world a
healthier place.
Pendergrast M. Inside the Outbreaks. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 2010. - A journalist takes readers on a journey through
history of the Epidemic Intelligence Service and how its officers
work to eliminate the most lethal and widespread threats to the
world’s health.
Wilson, M. The Medic's Guide to Work and Electives
Around the World. London: Hodder & Stoughton: 2004. Practical guide to making the most of your time abroad,
whether as a student or a medical professional looking for a
longer term change in scene.
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