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This is a thoughtful reading list aimed at clinicians and investigators, research personnel, or ethics/IRB board members. These are all useful books for informing our practices and changing the way we think about the patient or the subject. These books are also of interest for lay persons as well! Please suggest books in the comments that might be a good fit for this list.
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30 Years Behind Bars: Trials of a Prison Doctor
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Karen Gedney (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 144 ratings
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
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4.51 avg rating — 164,388 ratings
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Feminist, Queer, Crip
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4.39 avg rating — 1,024 ratings
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
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4.22 avg rating — 106,516 ratings
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Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times
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4.02 avg rating — 275 ratings
score: 185,
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Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers
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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
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Feminist Disability Studies
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Ellen Samuels (Contributor)
4.14 avg rating — 79 ratings
score: 100,
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For the Common Good: Philosophical Foundations of Research Ethics
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Alex John London (Goodreads Author)
4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness: A Reader & Roadmap of Bipolar Worlds
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4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
score: 98,
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Depression: A Public Feeling
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3.91 avg rating — 488 ratings
score: 97,
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Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
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Eli Clare (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 1,052 ratings
score: 96,
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Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
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4.52 avg rating — 4,988 ratings
score: 95,
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The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
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4.01 avg rating — 822 ratings
score: 92,
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The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care
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Anne Boyer (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 5,550 ratings
score: 91,
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Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0)
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4.25 avg rating — 9,830 ratings
score: 89,
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The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
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3.97 avg rating — 7,836 ratings
score: 88,
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Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us
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4.20 avg rating — 168 ratings
score: 87,
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Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene
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Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (Editor)
4.43 avg rating — 622 ratings
score: 86,
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Bloodchild and Other Stories
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4.34 avg rating — 26,558 ratings
score: 83,
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The Promise of Happiness
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4.27 avg rating — 1,230 ratings
score: 82,
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Maternal Desire: On Children, Love, and the Inner Life
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3.87 avg rating — 126 ratings
score: 81,
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The Art of Fermentation: An in-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes from Around the World
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4.43 avg rating — 4,781 ratings
score: 80,
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The Queer Art of Failure
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4.03 avg rating — 2,850 ratings
score: 79,
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Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
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Julia Serano (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 8,878 ratings
score: 78,
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Wit
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4.14 avg rating — 17,313 ratings
score: 77,
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Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
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4.16 avg rating — 2,808 ratings
score: 76,
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The Cancer Journals
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4.43 avg rating — 5,270 ratings
score: 75,
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Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
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Andrea Lawlor (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 15,079 ratings
score: 73,
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation
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3.61 avg rating — 541,736 ratings
score: 72,
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