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En un ejercicio de retroalimentación, el epidemiólogo Madhukar Pai, Director Asociado del Centro Internacional de TB McGill, preguntó en Twitter hace unos años: “Si hay un libro que les gustaría que leyeran todos los estudiantes de salud global, ¿sería …..?”. La pregunta derivó en la recomendación de más de 130 libros que compartimos en ese entonces.

Pero las respuestas no se detuvieron y hace unos días, Pai publicó la actualización del listado que hoy rebasa ¡los 300 títulos!

Racismo y colonialismo, mujeres y salud, plagas, ciencia de datos y pandemias (con muchos libros dedicados a la covid-19), son algunos de los temas que se pueden encontrar en este listado, que si bien nació como una forma de tener nuevas recomendaciones para los estudiantes de salud global, es útil para toda persona interesada en temas de ciencia y salud.

Esta lista vale oro. ¡Felices lecturas!

Author(s) Book
Abu-Sada, Caroline

In the Eyes of Others: How People in Crises Perceive Humanitarian Aid

Adams, Vincanne Metrics: What Counts in Global Health
Adeyi, Olusoji Global Health In Practice: Investing Amidst Pandemics, Denial Of Evidence, And Neo-dependency
Adler-Bolton, Beatrice & Vierkant, Artie

Health Communism: A Surplus Manifesto

Akbar, Arifa Consumed: A Sister’s Story
Alexander, Jessica Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid
Anderson, Warwick Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines
Andrews, Kehinde

The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World

Antia, Noshir A Life of Change: The Autobiography of a Doctor
Anya, Ike Small by Small: Becoming a Doctor in 1990s Nigeria
Arole, Rajanikant & Mabelle Jamkhed: A Comprehensive Rural Health Project
Armytage, Rosita Big Capital In An Unequal World
Atkinson, Anthony Inequality: What Can Be Done?
Baker, Josephine Fighting For Life
Bang, Rani Putting Women First: Women and Health in a Rural Community
Banerjee, Abhijit & Duflo, Esther Poor Economics
Banerjee, Abhijit & Duflo, Esther Good Economics for Hard Times
Bashford, Alison Imperial Hygiene: A Critical History of Colonialism, Nationalism and Public Health
Barber, Benjamin Consumed
Bartolo, Pietro & Tilotta, Lidia Tears of Salt: A Doctor’s Story of the Refugee Crisis
Barry, John The Great Influenza
Bass, Emily To End A Plague
Beard, Mary Women & Power: A Manifesto
Behrman, Greg The Invisible People
Benatar, Solomon Global Health and Global Health Ethics
Benjamin, Ruha Viral Justice: How We Grow The World We Want
Benton, Adia HIV Exceptionalism
Berkowitz, Aaron One by One by One
Bhambra, Gurminder & Gebrial, Dalia & Nisanclogu, Kerem Decolonising the University
Bhopal, Kalwant & Myers, Martin Elite Universities and the Making of Privilege
Biehl, João & Petryna, Adriana When People Come First

 

Birn, Anne-Emanuelle & Pillay, Yogan & Holtz, Timothy Textbook of Global Health
Black, Benjamin

Belly Woman: Birth, Blood & Ebola: The Untold Story

Bollyky, Thomas Plagues and the Paradox of Progress
Brauman, Rony Humanitaire : Le Dilemme
Breihl, Jaime

Critical Epidemiology and the People’s Health

 

Bresnahan, Andrew & Brindamour, Mahli & Charles, Christopher Upstream Medicine: Doctors for a Healthy Society
Brown, Damien

Band-Aid for a Broken Leg: Being a Doctor with No Borders

Brown, Jasmine Twice as Hard
Budabin, Alexandra & Richey, Lisa Ann Batman Saves The Congo
Buse, Kent & Mays, Nicholas & Walt, Gill Making Health Policy
Cagle, Hugh Assembling the Tropics: Science and Medicine in Portugal’s Empire
Camus, Albert The Plague
Capua, Ilaria

Circular Health: Empowering the One Health Revolution

Celi, Leo Anthony & Majumder Maimuna & Ordonez, Patricia & Osorio, Juan Sebastian & Paik, Kenneth & Somai, Melek Leveraging Data Science For Global Health
Chambers, Robert Whose Reality Counts?
Chigudu, Simukai The Political Life of an Epidemic
Cleghorn, Elinor Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-made World
Clinton, Chelsea & Sridhar, Devi Governing Global Health
Collins, Charles & Green, Andrew Valuing Health Systems: A Framework for Low and Middle Income Countries
Conrad, Joseph Heart of Darkness
Connelly, Matthew Fatal Misconception
Crane, Johanna Scrambling for Africa: AIDS, Expertise, and the Rise of American Global Health Science
Crisp, Nigel Turning The World Upside Down
Daar, Abdallah & Singer, Peter The Grandest Challenge
Davis, Angela Are Prisons Obsolete?
Davis, Meg

The Uncounted: Politics of Data in Global Health

Davis, Mike El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
de Haan, Arjan

How the Aid Industry Works

Deaton, Angus The Great Escape-Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
Desowitz, Robert The Malaria Capers
Diab, Jasmin Lilian Dignity in Movement: Borders, Bodies and Rights
Dionne, Kim Yi

Doomed Interventions: The Failure of Global Responses to AIDS in Africa

Downs, Jim Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
Doyal, Lesley & Pennell, Imogen The Political Economy of Health
Dubos, Rene The Mirage of Health
Dutt, Barkha

TO HELL AND BACK : Humans of COVID

Dye, Christopher

The Great Health Dilemma

Easterly, William The Tyranny of Experts
Easterly, William The White Man’s Burden
Eban, Katherine Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom
Enkh-Amgalan, Handaa Stigmatized
Epstein, Helen The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa
Fadiman, Anne The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Fanon, Frantz The Wretched of the Earth
Fanon, Frantz Black Skin, White Masks
Farmer, Paul Infection and Inequalities
Farmer, Paul Reimagining Global Health
Farmer, Paul To Repair The World
Farmer, Paul Pathologies of Power
Farmer, Paul AIDS and Accusation
Farmer, Paul Fevers, Feuds, And Diamonds
Farrar, Jeremy & Ahuja, Anjana The Spike: The Virus vs. The People
Ferris, Ramesh Better than a Cure: One Man’s Journey to Free the World of Polio
Fifield, Adam A Mighty Purpose How Jim Grant Sold the World on Saving Its Children
Flood, Colleen & Gross, Aeyal The Right to Health at the Public/Private Divide
Flood, Colleen; Vanessa MacDonnell, Jane Philpott, Sophie Thériault, Sridhar Venkatapuram Vulnerable: The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
Foege, William House on Fire
Folbre, Nancy Who Pays for the Kids?: Gender and the Structures of Constraint
France, David How to Survive a Plague
Freire, Paulo Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Frerichs, Ralph Deadly River: Cholera and Cover-Up in Post-Earthquake Haiti
Freudenberg, Nicholas Lethal But Legal
Galea, Sandro The Contagion Next Time
Gates, Bill

How to Prevent the Next Pandemic

Gates, Melinda The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
Garrett, Laurie The Coming Plague
Garrett, Laurie Betrayal of Trust
Gawande, Atul Better
Gawande, Atul Checklist Manifesto
Gehl, Lynn Claiming Anishnaabe: Decolonizing the human spirit
George, Rose The Big Necessity
Geronimus, Arline

Weathering

Ghosh, Amitav

The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

Giridharadas, Anand Winners Take All
Gilmore, Ruth Wilson

Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation

Glassman, Amanda & Temin, Miriam Millions Saved
Goodall, Jane & Abrams, Douglas The Book of Hope
Goldhill, David Catastrophic Care
Gostin, Lawrence & Meier, Benjamin Mason Foundations of Global Health &  Human Rights
Gostin, Lawrence Global Health Security
Gostin, Lawrence Global Health Law
Green, Monica (editor) Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death
Hannah-Jones, Nikole (editor) The 1619 Project
Harman, Sophie Global Health Governance
Harris, Joseph

Achieving Access: Professional Movements and the Politics of Health Universalism

Harrison, Gordon Mosquitoes, Malaria, and Man
Hernandez, Daisy The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease
Hernandez, Jessica

Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science

Hewlett, Barry

Ebola, Culture and Politics: The Anthropology of an Emerging Disease

 

Hickel, Jason The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets
Hochschild, Adam King Leopold’s Ghost
Hofman, Michiel & Au Sokhieng The Politics of Fear
Hoen, Ellen ‘t Private Patents and Public Health
Holmes, Seth Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies
Horton, Richard
Hotez, Peter Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s Autism: My Journey as a Vaccine Scientist, Pediatrician, and Autism Dad
Hotez, Peter Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-science
Howard, Jonathan We Want Them Infected
Hujo, Katja & Carter, Maggie Between Fault Lines And Front Lines
Hunleth, Jean Children as Caregivers: The Global Fight against Tuberculosis and HIV in Zambia
Hymes, Robert & Green, Monica New Evidence for the Dating and Impact of the Black Death in Asia
Jain, Yogesh & Sarah Nabia (editors)

Covid-19: A View from the Margins

Johnson, Stephen Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer
Johnson, Stephen The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic
Kabat, Geoffrey Getting Risk Right
Kabeer, Naila Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought
Keltner, Dacher The Power Paradox
Kendi, Ibram How to Be an Antiracist
KerouedanDominique Géopolitique de la santé mondiale
Keshavjee, Salmaan Blind Spot: How Neoliberalism Infiltrated Global Health
Khan, Themrise; Kanakulya Dickson; Maïka Sondarjee

White Saviorism in International Development

Keyes, Katherine & Galea, Sandro Population Health Science
Kidder, Tracy Mountains Beyond Mountains
Klein, Naomi This Changes Everything
Krieger, Nancy Epidemiology and the People’s Health
Krishna, Anirudh One Illness Away
Krishnan, Vidya Phantom Plague
Kucharski, Adam The Rules of Contagion
Labonte, Ronald & Ruckert, Arne Health Equity in a Globalizing Era
Lachenal, Guillaume

The Doctor Who Would Be King

Laharia, Chandrakant; Kang, Gagandeep & Guleria, Randeep

Till We Win: India’s Fight Against The Covid-19 Pandemic

Lakoff, Andrew Unprepared Global Health in a Time of Emergency
Lamb, Christina Our Bodies, Their Battlefield
Levin, Cynthia Changyit From Changing Diapers to Changing the World
Lewis, Michael The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
Lewis, Stephen Race Against Time
Linton, Samara & Walcott, Rianna

The Colour of Madness

Lipsky, Michael Street-Level Bureaucracy
Livingston, Julie Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic
Lister, John Health Policy Reform: Global Health Versus Private Profit
Loomis, Joshua Epidemics: The Impact of Germs and Their Power over Humanity
Lougheed, Kathryn Catching Breath: The Making and Unmaking of Tuberculosis
Luhrmann, TM Our Most Troubling Madness
MacIntyre, Raina

Dark Winter: An insider’s guide to pandemics and biosecurity

Madan, TN Doctors and Society
Marmot, Michael The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World
Marya, Rupa & Patel, Raj Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
Maskalyk, James Six Months in Sudan
Mayblin, Lucy Asylum after Empire
Maynard, Robin & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Rehearsals for Living

Maxmen, Amy Ebola’s Unpaid Heroes: How billions in aid skips over those at the frontline
Maynard, Robyn & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Rehearsals for Living

Mazzucato, Mariana & Collington, Rosie The Big Con
Mbali, Mandisa South African AIDS Activism and Global Health Politics
McGoey, Linsey No Such Thing as a Free Gift
McGuire, James Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America
McInnes, Colin; Lee, Kelley & Youde, Jeremy (editors) The Oxford Handbook of Global Health Politics
McKenna, Maryn Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats
McNeill, William Hardy Plagues and Peoples
Meier, Benjamin Mason & Gostin, Lawrence Human Rights in Global Health: Rights-Based Governance for a Globalizing World
Melrose, Dianna Bitter pills : medicines and the Third World poor
Mendenhall, Emily

Unmasked: COVID, Community, and the Case of Okoboji

 

Mendenhall, Emily & Nichter, Mark

Rethinking Diabetes: Entanglements with Trauma, Poverty, and HIV

Merson, Michael The AIDS Pandemic: Searching for a Global Response
Messac, Luke No More to Spend: Neglect and the Construction of Scarcity in Malawi’s History of Health Care
Metzl, Jonathan

Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland

Mialon, Melissa

Big Food & Cie

 

Minn, Pierre

Where They Need Me

Mitchell-Walthour, Gladys

The Politics of Survival: Black Women Social Welfare Beneficiaries in Brazil and the United States

Mohapatra, Seema & Wiley, Lindsay

Feminist Judgments: Health Law Rewritten

Morris, JN Uses of Epidemiology
Moses, Dirk; Duranti, Marco; Burke, Roland

Decolonization, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Global Human Rights Politics

Mugyenyi, Peter Genocide by Denial: How Profiteering from HIV/AIDS Killed Millions
Mukhopadhyay, Baijayanta

Country of Poxes: Three Germs and the Taking of Territory

Mukwege, Denis Plaidoyer pour la vie
Munk, Nina The Idealist
Mukherjee, Joia An Introduction to Global Health Delivery
Myers, Samuel & Frumkin, Howard

Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves

Nabhan, Chadi

Toxic Exposure

Nattrass, Nicoli Mortal Combat: AIDS Denialism and the Struggle for Antiretrovirals in South Africa
Neely, Abigail Reimagining Social Medicine from the South
Nguyen, Eric & Burman, Scott White Savior (Comic)
Nott, David War Doctor: Surgery on the front line
Novogratz, Jacqueline The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
Noy, Shiri Banking on Health The World Bank and Health Sector Reform in Latin America
Nundy, Shantanu Care After Covid
Nunes, Joao Security, Emancipation and the Politics of Health
Orbinski, James An Imperfect Offering
Oshinsky, David

Polio: An American Story

Osmundson, Joseph

Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between

Packard, Randall A History of Global Health
Packard, Randall The Making of a Tropical Disease
Paris, Django & Winn, M Humanizing Research
Patel, Raj Stuffed and Starved
Pearlman, Wendy

We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria

Pepin, Jacques The Origins of AIDS
Petchesky, Rosalind Global Prescriptions
People’s Health Movement, Medact, Third World Network, Health Poverty Action, Medico International, ALAMES, Viva Sud, Sama Global Health Watch 6: In the Shadow of the Pandemic
Phillips, Ben How To Fight Inequality And Why That Fight Needs You
Picard, Andre Matters of Life and Death
Picard, Andre Neglected No More
Piot, Peter No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses
Pisani, Elizabeth The Wisdom of Whores
Prince, Ruth Making and Unmaking Public Health in Africa
Quick, Jonathan The End of Epidemics
Quammen, David Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
Rajan, Raghuram The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind
Rao, Sujatha Do We Care?
Rawls, John A Theory of Justice
Raworth, Kate

Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

Ray, Keisha

Black Health: The Social, Political, and Cultural Determinants of Black People’s Health

Ray, Victor On Critical Race Theory
Reddy, KS Making Health in India
Reid, Nova The Good Ally
Richardson, Eugene Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health
Robin, Marie-Monique

La fabrique des pandémies (French)

Robinson, Kim Stanley

The Ministry for the Future

Rodney, Walter How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Rosling, Hans Factfulness
Rosenberg, Mark Real Collaboration
Roy, Arundhati My Seditious Heart
Roy, Victor Capitalizing A Cure
Riley, James Rising Life Expectancy: A Global History
Rukmini, S Whole Numbers and Half Truths: What Data Can and Cannot Tell Us About Modern India
Russell, Sharman Apt Within Our Grasp: Childhood Malnutrition Worldwide and the Revolution Taking Place to End It
Ryan, Frank Tuberculosis – The Greatest Story Never Told
Sainath, P Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India’s Poorest Districts
Sanders, David The struggle for health: Medicine and the politics of underdevelopment (second edition)
Sangaramoorthy, Thurka

Landscapes of Care: Immigration and Health in Rural America

Schama, Simon

Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations

Sen, Amartya Development as Freedom
Sen, Amartya The Idea of Justice
Sen, Gita Development, Crises and Alternative Visions
Sengupta, Amit

Political Journeys in Health

Shah, Sonia Pandemic
Shaheen-Hussain, Samir Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children in Canada
Shankar, Arjun Brown Saviors and Their Others: Race, Caste, Labor, and the Global Politics of Help in India
Shilts, Randy And The Band Played On
Shrime, Mark Solving For Why
Siddiqi, Sameen; Mataria, Awad; Rouleau, Katherine; Iqbal, Meesha Making Health Systems Work In Low and Middle Income Countries
Sinclair, Upton The Jungle
Skloot, Rebecca The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Skolnik, Richard Global Health 101
Smilios, Maria The Black Angels: The untold story of the nurses who helped cure tuberculosis
Smith, Lindia Decolonizing Methodologies
Solnit, Rebecca & Thelma Young Lutunatabua

Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

Sontag, Susan Illness as Metaphor
Sowemimo, Annabel

Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare

Sridhar, Devi

Preventable: How a Pandemic Changed the World & How to Stop the Next One

Sridhar, Devi The Battle Against Hunger
Stanley, Jason

How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

Steinberg, Jonny Three Letter Plague
Stepan, Nancy Leys

Eradication: Ridding the World of Diseases Forever?: Ridding the World of Disease Forever?

Strathdee, Steffanie & Patterson, Thomas The Perfect Predator
Steere-Williams, Jacob The Filth Disease: Typhoid Fever and the Practices of Epidemiology in Victorian England
Stuckler, David & Basu, Sanjay The Body Economic
Supari, Siti It’s Time for the World to Change in the Spirit of Dignity, Equity and Transparency
Szreter, Simon Health and Wealth: Studies in History and Policy 
Taiwo, Olufemi

Against Decolonization

Taranath, Anu

Beyond Guilt Trips: Mindful Travel in an Unequal World

Thiong’o, Ngugi wa Secure the Base: Making Africa Visible in the Globe
Thrasher, Steven The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
Thunberg, Greta The Climate Book
Tracey, Kevin Fatal Sequence: The Killer Within
Tripathi, Amrita, Abhijit Nadkarni & Soumitra Pathare

Life Interrupted: Understanding India’s Suicide Crisis

Tumbe, Chinmay Age of Pandemics
Varlik, Nukhet Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World
Venkat, Bharat At the Limits of Cure
Venkatapuram, Sridhar Health Justice: An Argument from the Capabilities Approach
Veeraraghavan, Rajesh Patching Development: Information Politics and Social Change in India
Verghese, Abraham Cutting For Stone
Verghese, Abraham My Own Country
Vijayakumar, Gowri At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis
Vince, Gaia

Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World

Vineis, Paulo Health Without Borders: Epidemics in the Era of Globalization
Vuong, Ocean

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

 

Waitzkin, Howard & Alina Perez & Matt Anderson Social Medicine and the Coming Transformation
Walsh, Sinead & Johnson Getting to Zero
Wald, Priscilla Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative
Waldron, Ingrid

There’s Something In The Water

Walia, Harsha Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
Walker, Darren

From Generosity to Justice: A New Gospel of Wealth

Walt, Gill Health Policy: An Introduction to Process and Power
Warah, Rasna Lords of Impunity
Wardere, Hibo Cut: One Woman’s Fight Against FGM in Britain Today
Washington, Harriet Medical Apartheid
Webb, James

Humanity’s Burden: A Global History of Malaria

Weber, Leanne Globalization and Borders
Wendland, Claire A Heart For the Work
Wenham, Clare Feminist Global Health Security
Werner, David Helping Health Workers Learn
Werner, David & Sanders, David Questioning the Solution: The Politics of Primary Health Care and Child Survival
Werner, David Where There is No Doctor
White, Alexandre Epidemic Orientalism: Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease
Wilkerson, Isabel Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Williams, Brian The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal
Wilkinson, David & Pickett, Kate The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
Willem, Jean Pierre Et la paix, docteur? : un médecin sur tous les fronts
Woodward, Bob Rage
Wolff, Jonathan The Human Right To Health
World Health Organization Constitution of the World Health Organization
Wray, Britt

Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis

Wunsch, Hannah

The Autumn Ghost: How the Battle Against a Polio Epidemic Revolutionized Modern Medical Care

Yanguas, Pablo Why We Lie About Aid
Yamin, Alicia Power, Suffering, and the Struggle for Dignity Human Rights Frameworks for Health and Why They Matter
Yasmin, Seema The Impatient Dr. Lange: One Man’s Fight to End the Global HIV Epidemic
Yasmin, Seema If God Is A Virus
Yengde, Suraj Caste Matters
Youde, Jeremy Global Health Governance
Zakaria, Rafia Against White Feminism
Zinsser, Hans Rats, Lice and History
Zurbrigg, Sheila

Rakku’s Story : Structures of Ill-health and the Source of Change

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