Optional Readings
Optional Readings/Additional Resources:
Suggested Readings:
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The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine by Rita Charon
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When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
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Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice Paperback by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
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Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan
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You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion by Dr. Meera Shah
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What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City by Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha
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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
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Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure by Eli Clare
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
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The Undying by Anne Boyer
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Under the Skin by Linda Villarosa
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Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century by Dorothy Roberts
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
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Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper Owens
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The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
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Dreamland by Sam Quiones
Podcasts, Articles, and Other Media:
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Iron Sharpens Irons (podcast with De'Wayne Drummond): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/iron-sharpens-iron/id1548544892
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The Moth (live storytelling events): https://themoth.org/
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The FlipSide (both sides of important issues): https://www.theflipside.io/
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“How red-baiting in medicine did lasting harm to Americans’ health care” (Washington Post):
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Inflamed (podcast): https://thedigradio.com/podcast/inflamed-w-raj-patel-and-rupa-marya/
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Research paper mentioned by Lynette Medley:
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Article mentioned by Kevin Ahmaad Jenkins:
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The Uses of Anger, by Audre Lorde
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'Mothers of gynecology' Anarcha, Lucy and Betsey to get their own monument in Montgomery
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Suggested articles/website from Ken Ginsburg:
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Philadelphia's Substance Use Prevention and Harm Reduction Office
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Hulu's "Dopesick" Revives a False Narrative and Pain Patients May Suffer
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Towards a 'Sociorelational' Approach to Conceptualizing and Managing Addiction
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Mayor Signs Executive Order to Decriminalize Fentanyl Test Strips