
Everything is Health: Health & Medicine’s Top Reads of 2018
December 21, 2018
Written By:
Health & Medicine Policy Research Group (HMPRG)
Not to be left out ofthe year end “best of” lists, here are a few equity and justice related books and articles that Health & Medicine staff, board, and community have enjoyed reading in 2018:
- Ghosts in the Schoolyard by Eve Ewing
- Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
- Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- Chicago on the Make: Power and Inequality in a Modern City, by Andrew J. Diamond
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
- Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World by Annie Lowrey
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
- Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors, et al.
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
- The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League, by Jeff Hobbs
- Perilous Path: Talking Race, Inequality, and the Law by Sherrilyn Ifill, et al.
- Chokehold: Policing Black Men by Paul Butler
- Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston
- The Death Gap by David Ansell
- The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
- The South Side by Natalie Moore
- Racism without Racists by Eduardo Bonilla Silva
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
- A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
- County by David Ansell
- Hunger by Roxane Gay
- The Family That Built and Empire of Pain: The Sackler dynasty’s ruthless marketing of painkillers has generated billions of dollars—and millions of addicts. By Patrick Radden Keefe (article)
- Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis: The answer to the disparity in death rates has everything to do with the lived experience of being a black woman in America. By Linda Villarosa (article)
- America’s Health Crisis and the Easterlin Paradox by Jeffery D. Sachs (article)