Global Health Resources

Recommended Reading

• When the Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Ann Fadiman

• Mountains Beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder

References

The following books and many others are available from the REACH Lending Library in Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Room S3581.

International Health

• A Long Way Gone (Memoirs of a Boy Soldier) by Ishmael Beah

• Race Against Time by Stephen Lewis

• We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families (stories from Rwanda) by Philip Gourevitch

• Infections and Inequalities (The Modern Plagues) by Paul Farmer

• Pathologies of Power (Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor) by Paul Farmer

• Understanding the Global Dimensions of Health edited by S. William A. Gunn, P. B. Mansourian, A. M. Davies, A. Piel, and B. McA. Sayers

• Understanding Global Health (a LANGE medical book) edited by William H. Markle, Melanie A. Fisher and Raymond A. Smego, Jr.

• Essentials of Global Health by Richard Skolnik

• Questioning the Solution: the Politics of Primary Health Care and Child Survival by David Werner and David Sanders

• Management of the Child with Serious Infection or Severe Malnutrition by WHO

• Where there is no Doctor: a village health care handbook by David Werner with Carol Thurman and Jane Maxwell

• Finding Work in Global Health by Garth Osborn and Patricia Ohmans

Native American Health

• The Navaho by Clyde Kluckhohn and Dorothea Leighton

• Sweet Salt (Discovering the Sacred World of the Navajo) by Raymond Friday Locke

• Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie

• The Scalpel and the Silver Bear (The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing) by Lori Arviso Alvord, M.D. and Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt