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Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor
by:
Paul Farmer
4.27 avg rating β 4,809 ratings
2.
Womanist Bioethics: Social Justice, Spirituality, and Black Women's Health
by:
Wylin D. Wilson
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 4 ratings
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
by:
Caroline Criado PΓ©rez
4.34 avg rating β 156,626 ratings
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
by:
Nicholas D. Kristof
4.28 avg rating β 55,460 ratings
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Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues
by:
Paul Farmer
4.10 avg rating β 2,882 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by:
Rebecca Skloot
4.13 avg rating β 787,105 ratings
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The Hospital by the River
by:
Catherine Hamlin
4.10 avg rating β 2,573 ratings
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The Noble Edge: Reclaiming an Ethical World One Choice at a Time
by:
Christopher Gilbert
4.33 avg rating β 21 ratings
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by:
Matthew Desmond
4.47 avg rating β 109,956 ratings
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by:
Tracy Kidder
4.20 avg rating β 87,494 ratings
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Durable Inequality (Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture)
by:
Charles Tilly
4.02 avg rating β 112 ratings
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Hoping to Help: The Promises and Pitfalls of Global Health Volunteering
by:
Judith N. Lasker
4.04 avg rating β 55 ratings
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The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
by:
Richard G. Wilkinson
4.13 avg rating β 7,059 ratings
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Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
by:
Laurie Garrett
4.13 avg rating β 1,345 ratings
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Quit or Die Trying
by:
Alison Beard
4.45 avg rating β 22 ratings
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Negative Space: A Play in One Act
by:
Bourne
3.47 avg rating β 17 ratings
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To the Survivors: One Man's Journey as a Rape Crisis Counselor with True Stories of Sexual Violence
by:
Robert Uttaro
4.03 avg rating β 184 ratings
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Do Justice: Practical Ways to Engage Our World
by:
Kristi Burton Brown
4.12 avg rating β 8 ratings
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Your Patient Safety Survival Guide: How to Protect Yourself and Others from Medical Errors
by:
Gretchen Lefever Watson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 20 ratings
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Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story
by:
Steven Hatch
3.70 avg rating β 441 ratings
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Healthcare without Borders: Understanding Cuban Medical Internationalism
by:
John M. Kirk
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 5 ratings
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Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia
by:
Chris Hamby
4.31 avg rating β 753 ratings
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Garbage Bag Suitcase: A Memoir
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Shenandoah Chefalo
4.07 avg rating β 1,011 ratings
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Atlanta's Concealment of the Baby Gun Club Landfill
by:
Jerry Brow
4.20 avg rating β 5 ratings
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For the Common Good: Philosophical Foundations of Research Ethics
by:
Alex John London
4.75 avg rating β 4 ratings
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Health, Luck, and Justice
by:
Shlomi Segall
3.80 avg rating β 10 ratings
26.
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
by:
Jeffrey D. Sachs
3.69 avg rating β 11,197 ratings
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Medical Industrial Complex (The Underground Knowledge Series, #3)
by:
James Morcan
4.10 avg rating β 77 ratings
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It's Not Yet Dark
by:
Simon Fitzmaurice
4.16 avg rating β 2,808 ratings
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Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York
by:
Carl Suddler
4.43 avg rating β 23 ratings
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Healing Lives
by:
Sue Williams
4.32 avg rating β 240 ratings
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Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
by:
Angela Chen
4.34 avg rating β 18,725 ratings
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Inequality (Oxford Ethics Series)
by:
Larry S. Temkin
4.19 avg rating β 16 ratings
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The Secret History of the War on Cancer
by:
Devra Davis
4.05 avg rating β 385 ratings
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The Disaster Profiteers: How Natural Disasters Make the Rich Richer and the Poor Even Poorer
by:
John C. Mutter
3.87 avg rating β 45 ratings
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Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation
by:
Sunaura Taylor
4.55 avg rating β 677 ratings
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Toxic Childhood Stress The Legacy of Early Trauma and How to Heal
by:
Nadine Burke Harris
4.21 avg rating β 233 ratings
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The Red Market: On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers
by:
Scott Carney
3.83 avg rating β 3,436 ratings
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Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe
by:
Antony Loewenstein
3.75 avg rating β 311 ratings
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Enabling Acts: The Hidden Story of How the Americans with Disabilities Act Gave the Largest US Minority Its Rights
by:
Lennard J. Davis
3.99 avg rating β 148 ratings
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The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
by:
Nadine Burke Harris
4.43 avg rating β 10,878 ratings
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Challenging Health Economics
by:
Gavin H. Mooney
4.50 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
by:
Richard Louv
3.93 avg rating β 14,734 ratings
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Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
by:
Dan Fagin
4.09 avg rating β 4,618 ratings
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Nursing Civil Rights: Gender and Race in the Army Nurse Corps
by:
Charissa J. Threat
4.30 avg rating β 10 ratings
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Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
by:
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
4.53 avg rating β 4,859 ratings
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Challenging Inequities in Health: From Ethics to Action
by:
Finn Diderichsen
3.86 avg rating β 7 ratings
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The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing
by:
Lori Arviso Alvord
4.02 avg rating β 1,319 ratings
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Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
by:
Michael Moss
4.01 avg rating β 32,460 ratings
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Global Health and Global Health Ethics
by:
Solomon Benatar
4.17 avg rating β 6 ratings
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Prescription for a Healthy Nation: A New Approach to Improving Our Lives by Fixing Our Everyday World
by:
Tom Farley
3.88 avg rating β 138 ratings
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The People's Republic of Chemicals
by:
William J. Kelly
4.09 avg rating β 56 ratings
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Serving the Nation: Cherokee Sovereignty and Social Welfare, 1800β1907 (Volume 14) (New Directions in Native American Studies Series)
by:
Julie L. Reed
3.62 avg rating β 8 ratings
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Health Inequalities and Global Justice
by:
Patti Lenard
4.25 avg rating β 4 ratings
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In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness in America
by:
Laurie Edwards
3.49 avg rating β 433 ratings
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Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach
by:
Martha C. Nussbaum
3.81 avg rating β 916 ratings
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Needless Suffering: How Society Fails Those with Chronic Pain
by:
David Nagel
3.64 avg rating β 14 ratings
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Inequality Reexamined
by:
Amartya Sen
4.07 avg rating β 280 ratings
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Rethinking Aging: Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society
by:
Nortin M. Hadler
3.92 avg rating β 64 ratings
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Development as Freedom
by:
Amartya Sen
4.10 avg rating β 7,023 ratings
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Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrongβand the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
by:
Angela Saini
4.05 avg rating β 9,413 ratings
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Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership
by:
Martha C. Nussbaum
3.88 avg rating β 306 ratings
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The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World
by:
Michael G. Marmot
4.12 avg rating β 1,455 ratings
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A Warrior of the People: How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America's First Indian Doctor
by:
Joe Starita
3.90 avg rating β 912 ratings
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The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos
by:
Karen Piper
3.83 avg rating β 156 ratings
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Just Health Care
by:
Norman Daniels
3.35 avg rating β 17 ratings
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Just Health: Meeting Health Needs Fairly
by:
Norman Daniels
3.83 avg rating β 35 ratings
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Health Inequality: Morality and Measurement
by:
Yukiko Asada
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 4 ratings
68.
Lethal But Legal: Corporations, Consumption, and Protecting Public Health
by:
Nicholas Freudenberg
3.76 avg rating β 93 ratings
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Health Inequality: An Introduction to Concepts, Theories and Methods
by:
Mel Bartley
3.97 avg rating β 37 ratings
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Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris
by:
Richard Kluger
3.93 avg rating β 291 ratings
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Social Determinants of Health
by:
Richard G. Wilkinson
4.15 avg rating β 94 ratings
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
by:
Neil Postman
4.16 avg rating β 36,102 ratings
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Health Justice: An Argument from the Capabilities Approach
by:
Sridhar Venkatapuram
4.69 avg rating β 16 ratings
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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
by:
Drew Gilpin Faust
4.04 avg rating β 7,246 ratings
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
by:
Candice Millard
4.22 avg rating β 81,276 ratings
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Treating the Public: Charitable Theater and Civic Health in the Early Modern Atlantic World
by:
Rachael Ball
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
by:
Eric Schlosser
3.78 avg rating β 6,368 ratings
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War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race
by:
Edwin Black
4.22 avg rating β 990 ratings
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Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill
by:
Gabriela Soto Laveaga
3.89 avg rating β 56 ratings
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Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Germ Laboratory
by:
Michael Christopher Carroll
3.76 avg rating β 2,119 ratings
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Rise of the Necrofauna: The Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction
by:
Britt Wray
3.93 avg rating β 290 ratings
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Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum
by:
Mab Segrest
3.78 avg rating β 187 ratings
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To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice
by:
Jessica Wilkerson
4.30 avg rating β 116 ratings
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Understanding Jim Crow: Using Racist Memorabilia to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice
by:
David Pilgrim
4.49 avg rating β 193 ratings
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Impulse to Act: A New Anthropology of Resistance and Social Justice
by:
Othon Alexandrakis
3.67 avg rating β 3 ratings
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Don't Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities
by:
Victoria Law
4.04 avg rating β 112 ratings
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Activist: Portraits of Courage
by:
K.K. Ottesen
4.35 avg rating β 62 ratings
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Who Says You're Dead? Medical & Ethical Dilemmas for the Curious & Concerned
by:
Jacob M. Appel
3.93 avg rating β 1,072 ratings
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Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City
by:
Richard Sennett
4.02 avg rating β 922 ratings
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Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter
by:
Peter Singer
3.93 avg rating β 4,794 ratings
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Virtue Ethics and the Environment
by:
Philip Cafaro
it was ok 2.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Thoreau's Living Ethics: Walden and the Pursuit of Virtue
by:
Philip Cafaro
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 25 ratings
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Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World
by:
Dalai Lama XIV
4.07 avg rating β 5,808 ratings
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Backwoods Ethics: Environmental Issues for Hikers and Campers
by:
Laura Waterman
4.02 avg rating β 42 ratings
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Mek Some Noise: Gospel Music and the Ethics of Style in Trinidad (Music of the African Diaspora) (Volume 11)
by:
Timothy Rommen
3.67 avg rating β 12 ratings
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The Rape of the APE (American Puritan Ethic): The Official History of the Sexual Revolution
by:
Allan Sherman
4.15 avg rating β 179 ratings
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Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood
by:
Taras Grescoe
4.14 avg rating β 672 ratings
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Wilderness and the Common Good: A New Ethic of Citizenship
by:
Jo Arney
4.25 avg rating β 4 ratings
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Wilderness Ethics: Preserving the Spirit of Wildness, Special Edition, with an Appreciation of Guy Waterman
by:
Guy Waterman
3.88 avg rating β 59 ratings
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