Racism, Addiction, and Classism in Healthcare: Academic Best Sellers in Medicine

A fascinating examination of the past and present of women's healthcare, a century-spanning history of the evolution of our culture and the practice of medicine, and an analysis of how middle-class Black women navigate the complexities of dealing with doctors top the list of best-selling medicine books, as compiled by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

A fascinating examination of the past and present of women's healthcare; a century-spanning history of the evolution of our culture and the practice of medicine; and an analysis of how middle-class Black women navigate the complexities of dealing with doctors top the list of best-selling medicine books, as compiled by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

 

1. Everything Below the Waist: Why Health Care Needs a Feminist Revolution
Block, Jennifer
St Martin's Press. 2019. ISBN 9781250110053. $27.99.


2. Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
Hager, Thomas
Harry N. Abrams. 2019. ISBN 9781419734403. $26.


3. Invisible Visits: Black Middle-Class Women in the American Healthcare System
Sacks, Tina K.
Oxford University Press. 2019. ISBN 9780190840204. $45.


4. The Wild and the Toxic: American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health
Thomson, Jennifer
University of North Carolina Press. 2019. ISBN 9781469651644. $90.


5. The Ethics of Universal Health Insurance
Rajczi, Alex
Oxford University Press. 2019. ISBN 9780190946838. $35.


6. Urban Health
Galea, Sandro
Oxford University Press. 2019. ISBN 9780190915858. $99.95.


7. The Prescription Drug Problem: A New American Crisis?
Schroeder, Ryan D.
Praeger. 2019. ISBN 9781440857690. $48.


8. Road to Universal Health Coverage: Innovation, Equity, and the New Health Economy
Sturchio, Jeffrey L.
Johns Hopkins University Press. 2018. ISBN 9781421429557. 34.95.


9. Fat in the Fifties: America's First Obesity Crisis
Rasmussen, Nicolas
Johns Hopkins University Press. 2019. ISBN 9781421428710. $39.95.


10. City of Omens: A Search for the Missing Women of the Borderlands
Werb, Dan
Bloomsbury. 2019. ISBN 9781635572995. $28.


11. Code Blue: Inside America's Medical Industrial Complex
Magee, Mike
Atlantic Monthly. 2019. ISBN 9780802129055. $27.


12. Fat: A Cultural History of the Stuff of Life
Forth, Christopher E.
Reaktion Books. 2019. ISBN 9781789140620. $32.


13. Antibiotics: What Everyone Needs to Know
Wilson, Mary Elizabeth
Oxford University Press. 2019. ISBN 9780190663414. $74.


14. Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father
Milanich, Nara B.
Harvard University Press. 2019. ISBN 9780674980686. $35.


15. Security and Public Health: Pandemics and Politics in the Contemporary World
Rushton, Simon
Polity Press. 2019. ISBN 9781509515882. $64.95.


16. Values at the End of Life: The Logic of Palliative Care
Livne, Roi
Harvard University Press. 2019. ISBN 9780674545175. $45.


17. Drugs, Money, and Secret Handshakes: The Unstoppable Growth of Prescription Drug Prices
Feldman, Robin
Cambridge University Press. 2019. ISBN 9781108482455. $29.95.


18. GLMA Handbook on LGBT Health
Schneider, Jason S.
Praeger. 2019. ISBN 9780313395659. $110.


19. Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America's Heartland
Metzl, Jonathan
Basic Books. 2019. ISBN 9781541644984. $32.


20. Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth
Davis, Dana-Ain
New York University Press. 2019. ISBN 9781479812271. $89.

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