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Global Health Books
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as global-health)
avg rating 4.20 — 88,048 ratings — published 2003
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as global-health)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,830 ratings — published 2003
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as global-health)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,898 ratings — published 1999
Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as global-health)
avg rating 4.36 — 468 ratings — published 2013
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as global-health)
avg rating 4.20 — 88,212 ratings — published 1997
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as global-health)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,544 ratings — published 2008
The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as global-health)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,009 ratings — published 2007
An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as global-health)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,258 ratings — published 2008
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as global-health)
avg rating 3.85 — 7,967 ratings — published 2007
To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as global-health)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,038 ratings — published 2013
A History of Global Health: Interventions Into the Lives of Other Peoples (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as global-health)
avg rating 4.19 — 113 ratings — published
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as global-health)
avg rating 4.27 — 24,036 ratings — published 2011
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as global-health)
avg rating 4.39 — 29,021 ratings — published 1987
Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as global-health)
avg rating 3.70 — 8,211 ratings — published 2009
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as global-health)
avg rating 4.21 — 10,712 ratings — published 1994
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as global-health)
avg rating 3.84 — 5,642 ratings — published 2006
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as global-health)
avg rating 3.89 — 55,647 ratings — published 2006
The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as global-health)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,107 ratings — published 2008
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as global-health)
avg rating 3.69 — 11,215 ratings — published 2005
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as global-health)
avg rating 4.36 — 199,226 ratings — published 2018
When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as global-health)
avg rating 4.17 — 69 ratings — published 2013
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as global-health)
avg rating 4.13 — 794,425 ratings — published 2010
Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as global-health)
avg rating 3.65 — 79 ratings — published 2016
The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as global-health)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,482 ratings — published 2015
No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as global-health)
avg rating 3.84 — 988 ratings — published 2012
Turning the World Upside Down: The search for global health in the 21st Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as global-health)
avg rating 3.64 — 36 ratings — published 2010
Development as Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as global-health)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,062 ratings — published 1999
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as global-health)
avg rating 3.66 — 358,390 ratings — published 2006
Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as global-health)
avg rating 4.21 — 376 ratings — published 2012
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as global-health)
avg rating 4.16 — 120,382 ratings — published 1994
Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as global-health)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,345 ratings — published 2000
Metrics: What Counts in Global Health (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography)
by (shelved 8 times as global-health)
avg rating 3.61 — 18 ratings — published 2016
Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader (Volume 23)
by (shelved 8 times as global-health)
avg rating 4.36 — 270 ratings — published 2010
Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as global-health)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,235 ratings — published 2020
Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as global-health)
avg rating 4.33 — 205 ratings — published 2020
Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as global-health)
avg rating 3.81 — 102 ratings — published 2006
Scrambling for Africa: AIDS, Expertise, and the Rise of American Global Health Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as global-health)
avg rating 4.04 — 101 ratings — published 2013
Blind Spot: How Neoliberalism Infiltrated Global Health (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as global-health)
avg rating 4.20 — 122 ratings — published 2014
In the Company of the Poor: Conversations with Dr. Paul Farmer and Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as global-health)
avg rating 4.26 — 486 ratings — published 2013
Jamkhed: A Comprehensive Rural Health Project (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as global-health)
avg rating 4.48 — 42 ratings — published 1994
Six Months in Sudan: A Young Doctor in a War-torn Village (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as global-health)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,233 ratings — published 2009
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as global-health)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,367 ratings — published 1991
Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as global-health)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,240 ratings — published 2009
AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care)
by (shelved 7 times as global-health)
avg rating 4.21 — 861 ratings — published 1992
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as global-health)
avg rating 4.40 — 128,016 ratings — published 2025
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as global-health)
avg rating 4.44 — 4,281 ratings — published 2016
Imperial Hygiene: A Critical History of Colonialism, Nationalism and Public Health (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as global-health)
avg rating 3.43 — 14 ratings — published 2003
Fighting for Life (New York Review Books Classics)
by (shelved 6 times as global-health)
avg rating 4.23 — 354 ratings — published 1939
An Introduction to Global Health Delivery: Practice, Equity, Human Rights (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as global-health)
avg rating 4.42 — 33 ratings — published 2017
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as global-health)
avg rating 4.33 — 421,547 ratings — published 2009
“Global health players can become impervious to critique as they identify emergencies, cite dire statistics, and act on their essential duty of promoting health in the name of "humanitarian reason" or as an instrument of economic development, diplomacy, or national security. We are left, however, with an open-source anarchy around global health problems--a policy space in which new strategies, rules, distributive schemes, and the practical ethics of health care are being assembled, experimented with, and improvised by a wide array of deeply unequal stakeholders”
― When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health
― When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health
“A Right to Health Avi Kerendian is a book about the challenges and opportunities of using telehealth and AI to improve global health. It provides a roadmap for policymakers and health care professionals to improve access to health care for all.”
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