If you had to read one book on global health...
Dr. Madhukar Pai
See original article here.
I teach an introductory course on global health, and am always looking to make it better. I recently 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 120 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.
Happy reading!
Adams, Vincanne - Metrics: What Counts in Global Health
Antia, Noshir - A Life of Change: The Autobiography of a Doctor
Atkinson, Anthony - Inequality: What Can Be Done?
Baker, Josephine - Fighting For Life
Bang, Rani - Putting Women First: Women and Health in a Rural Community
Bashford, Alison - Imperial Hygiene: A Critical History of Colonialism, Nationalism and Public Health
Barber, Benjamin - Consumed
Banerjee, Abhijit & Duflo, Esther - Poor Economics
Behrman, Greg - The Invisible People
Benatar, Solomon - Global Health and Global Health Ethics
Biehl, João & Petryna, Adriana - When People Come First
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle & Pillay, Yogan & Holtz, Timothy - Textbook of Global Health
Bollyky, Thomas - Plagues and the Paradox of Progress
Buse, Kent & Mays, Nicholas & Walt, Gill - Making Health Policy
Brauman, Rony - Humanitaire : Le Dilemme
Camus, Albert - The Plague
Clinton, Chelsea & Sridhar, Devi - Governing Global Health
Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
Connelly, Matthew - Fatal Misconception
Crisp, Nigel - Turning The World Upside Down
Daar, Abdallah & Singer, Peter - The Grandest Challenge
Deaton, Angus - The Great Escape-Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
Desowitz, Robert - The Malaria Capers
Easterly, William - The Tyranny of Experts
Easterly, William - The White Man’s Burden
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
Ferris, Ramesh - Better than a Cure: One Man's Journey to Free the World of Polio
Foege, William - House on Fire
Folbre, Nancy - Who Pays for the Kids?: Gender and the Structures of Constraint
Freire, Paulo - Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Frerichs, Ralph - Deadly River: Cholera and Cover-Up in Post-Earthquake Haiti
Freudenberg, Nicholas - Lethal But Legal
Garrett, Laurie - The Coming Plague
Garrett, Laurie - Betrayal of Trust
Gawande, Atul - Better
George, Rose - The Big Necessity
Glassman, Amanda & Temin, Miriam - Millions Saved
Goldhill, David - Catastrophic Care
Harrison, Gordon - Mosquitoes, Malaria, and Man
Hochschild, Adam - King Leopold's Ghost
Hofman, Michiel & Au Sokhieng - The Politics of Fear
Holmes, Seth - Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies
Johnson, Stephen - The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic
Kabeer, Naila - Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought
Keltner, Dacher - The Power Paradox
Kerouedan, Dominique - Géopolitique de la santé mondiale
Keyes, Katherine & Galea, Sandra - 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
Lewis, Stephen - Race Against Time
Lipsky, Michael - Street-Level Bureaucracy
Livingston, Julie - Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic
Lougheed, Kathryn - Catching Breath: The Making and Unmaking of Tuberculosis
Luhrmann, TM - Our Most Troubling Madness
Madan, TN - Doctors and Society
Marmot, Michael - The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World
Maskalyk, James - Six Months in Sudan
Mayblin, Lucy - Asylum after Empire
McGoey, Linsey - No Such Thing as a Free Gift
McNeill, William Hardy - Plagues and Peoples
Merson, Michael - The AIDS Pandemic: Searching for a Global Response
Morris, JN - Uses of Epidemiology
Mukwege, Denis - Plaidoyer pour la vie
Munk, Nina - The Idealist
Mukherjee, Joia - An Introduction to Global Health Delivery
Nattrass, Nicoli - Mortal Combat: AIDS Denialism and the Struggle for Antiretrovirals in South Africa
Novogratz, Jacqueline - The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
Orbinski, James - An Imperfect Offering
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
Pepin, Jacques - The Origins of AIDS
Petchesky, Rosalind - Global Prescriptions
People's Health Movement, Medact, Third World Network, Health Poverty Action, Medico International, and ALAMES - Global Health Watch 5
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
Quammen, David - Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
Rawls, John - A Theory of Justice
Rosling, Hans - Factfulness
Rosenberg, Mark - Real Collaboration
Ryan, Frank - Tuberculosis – The Greatest Story Never Told
Sen, Amartya - Development as Freedom
Sen, Amartya - The Idea of Justice
Sen, Gita - Development, Crises and Alternative Visions
Shah, Sonia - Pandemic
Shilts, Randy - And The Band Played On
Sinclair, Upton - The Jungle
Smith, Lindia - Decolonizing Methodologies
Sontag, Susan - Illness as Metaphor
Sridhar, Devi - The Battle Against Hunger
Steinberg, Jonny - Three Letter Plague
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
Verghese, Abraham - Cutting For Stone
Vineis, Paulo - Health Without Borders: Epidemics in the Era of Globalization
Walsh, Sinead & Johnson - Getting to Zero
Walt, Gill - Health Policy: An Introduction to Process and Power
Washington, Harriet - Medical Apartheid
Weber, Leanne - Globalization and Borders
Wendland, Claire - A Heart For the Work
Werner, David - Helping Health Workers Learn
Werner, David - Where There is No Doctor
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
Wolff, Jonathan - The Human Right To Health
World Health Organization - Constitution of the World Health Organization
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
Zinsser, Hans - Rats, Lice and History
Dr. Madhukar Pai is a Professor and a Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology & Global Health at McGill University. He serves as the Director of McGill Global Health Programs, and Director of the McGill International TB Centre. http://www.paitbgroup.org/