Social Medicine Books
Suggestions by Vic Sidel, MD
Henderson, Gail; King, Nancy; Strauss, Ronald; Estroff, Sue; Chuchill, Larry. The Social Medicine Reader. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1997.
Hiatt, Howard. America’s Health in the Balance: Choice or Chance? New York: Harper and Row, 1987.
Levy, Barry; Sidel, Victor. War and Public Health. Second Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008
Levy, Barry, Sidel, Victor. Social Injustice and Public Health. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009
Lindorff, Dave. Marketplace Medicine: The Rise of the For-Profit Hospital Chains. Bantam Books, 1992
McKeown, Thomas, Lowe, C.R. An Introduction to Social Medicine. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific, 1966
Relman, Arnold. A Second Opinion: Rescuing America’s Health Care. New York: Public Affairs, 2007
Sidel, Victor, Sidel, Ruth. Reforming Medicine: Lessons of the Last Quarter Century. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984
Waitzkin, Howard. At the Front Lines of Medicine: How the Health Care System Alienates Doctors and Mistreats Patients … And what We Can Do About It. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc 2001
Waitzkin, Howard. The Second Sickness: Contradictions of Capitalist Health Care. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 2000.
Waitzkin, Howard. The Politics of Medical Encounters: How Patients and Doctors Deal With Social Problems. New Haven, Connecticut; Yale University Press, 1991.
Suggested reading from DFSM Faculty and Residents:
Los de Abajo by Mariano Azuela
Argentina Hospital by Ignacio Katz
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
Cuentos Completos; La Mañosa by Juan Bosch
Infections and Inequalities by Paul Farmer
The End of Poverty by Jefferey Sachs
El mundo es ancho y ajeno by Ciro Alegria
My Own Country by Abraham Verghese. AIDS arrives in Johnson City, Tennessee, and physician Abraham Verghese is there to record its impact on the lives of his patients. A beautifully written, tender and powerful book.
Non-Violent Resistance (Satyagraha) by Mahatama Gandhi
Pathologies of Power by Paul Farmer
Putting the Last First by Robert Chambers
Random Family (account of Puerto Rican family in South Bronx) by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
White Coat, Clenched Fist by Fitzhugh Mullan
The White Man’s Burden by William Easterly.
