Summer Reading

[doraphilia]

Hello all

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[ethelfleda]

Not contemporary, but how about the dude who started it all? The Ghost Map is a great read on the Broad Street Pump and cholera. (The book has a lot of different subtitles for different editions, but I think they're all the same underneath!)

[doraphilia]

thank you!

[tulipchica]

More on the sociocultural end, can't recommend "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down" by Ann Fadiman enough--love the book :)

[doraphilia]

That book is GREAT! I read it a year or so ago and I thought it was so interesting.

[strangestranger]

ditto. :)

[ashpash]

This was actually required reading for my MPH program. It might be worth looking into what reading will be required to see if any of it sounds interesting.

[tigerlily_blue]

More on the "public health origins of something" bent.... The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic. I read it in on sitting.

[ericaceous]

If you want an engaging overview of how infrastructure (or lack of it) affects public health, Betrayal of Trust: the failure of global public health is a great book, and often available in regular non-academic libraries. structural issues might sound not so related to your interests, but once you start thinking that way, you can see how structural and resource issues are a big part of a lot of disparities.

[dlightful]

Tracey Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains is a very engaging biography of Paul Farmer, the founder of Partners in Health.