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Listopia > Doug Luke's votes on the list Brown School (28 Books)
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Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche
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"Cross-cultural views of mental health.
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Twenty Years at Hull House
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"The mother of social work tells her professional story."
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Capital in the Twenty First Century
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"Arguably one of the most important and influential books of the year.
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American Psychosis: How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System
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"This book takes a very critical stance towards the very concept of social determinants of health and mental health.
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High Rise Stories: Voices from Chicago Public Housing
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Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town
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"This book offers great insight into the experiences of refugees from many cultures and the challenges they face as they settle in the U.S.
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Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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"A riveting story of the collision between ethics, race, medicine, and scientific discovery."
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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"This is a phenomenal book for cancer and non-cancer enthusiasts. Won a Pulitzer Prize, and has some Wash U research references.
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Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
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"The most interesting expose on how our food culture has led, in part, to the obesity epidemic in America.
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Fighting for Life (New York Review Books Classics)
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"Covers the history of social welfare and public health in NY City at the turn of the century. A great way to integrate both disciplines.
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
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"History of the AIDS epidemic including lots of epidemiology and policy.
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Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History
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"Focuses on the politics of social policy research, but applies to poverty-related research across disciplines. "
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Dallas Buyers Club
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Chasing the American Dream: Understanding What Shapes Our Fortunes
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"By our own Mark Rank!"
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A Plague on Your Houses: How New York Was Burned Down and National Public Health Crumbled (Haymarket Series)
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"About the collapse of parts of NYC after closing fire companies in the 1970s as a way to engineer some communities.
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Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights
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"In the U.S. members of minorities have been successfully pressured first to convert, then to pass, and now to cover.
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Orphan Train
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"Historical fiction approach that incorporates the history of the child welfare orphan trains with more current figure involved in foster care--does a good job of capturing poverty, maltreatment, and still winds up ending on a positive note."
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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"Great treatment of John Snow, the London cholera epidemic, and the birth of modern quantitative epidemiology.
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The Jungle
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"The classic 1906 socialist novel of the Chicago stockyards. Its shock and realism helped lead to the formation of the FDA.
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The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America
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"Great historical treatment of the rise of tobacco in the 20th Century.
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
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"Although non-fiction, written as a thriller. Came out almost 20 years ago, but still relevant given the new outbreak of Ebola."
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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"Listed on NACCHO's public health bookshelf."
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
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"Relevant for social work and public health, and a compelling argument for the need for cultural competency."
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
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"Found this on a list of books that were reasons why students decided to go into public health."
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
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"Particularly relevant given our current Ebola crisis.
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Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis---and the People Who Pay the Price
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Diabesity: The Obesity-Diabetes Epidemic That Threatens America--And What We Must Do to Stop It
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