American Medical Student Association

Reading List/Resources

Epidemiology/Statistics

• Global Comparative Assessments in the Health Sector: Disease Burden, Expenditures, and Intervention Packages, C.J. Murray
• The Global Epidemiology of Noncommunicable Diseases, Alan D. Lopez
• Global Health Statistics, Christopher J. L. Murray

General

• Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine, M. Eddleston, S. Pierini
• Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook: D. Werner, et al.
• Finding Work in Global Health, Garth Osborn, Patricia Ohmans
• Textbook of International Health, Paul F. Basch
• Cross-cultural Rehabilitation: An International Perspective, Ronnie Linda Leavitt
• Curing and Healing: Medical Anthropology in a Global Perspective, Andrew Strathern, Pamela J. Stewart
• Health Information for International Travel, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Health Care Systems in Transition: An International Perspective, Francis D. Powell
• Health of Nations: An International Perspective on U.S. Health Care Reform, Laurence A. Graig
• International Health, Robert W. Buckingham
• International CO-Operation in Health, Martin McKee
• Critical Issues in Global Health: A Guide to Regions, Conditions, and Leadership Challenges, C. Everett
• Global Health Care Markets: A Comprehensive Guide to Regions, Trends, and Opportunities Shaping the International Health Arena, Walter W. Wieners
• Disaster and Mass Trauma: Global Perspectives on Post Disaster Mental Health Management, Anie Sanentz Kalayjian
• The Global Challenge of Health Care Rationing, Angela Couter
• Global Migration: The Health Care Implications of Immigration and Population Movements, Paul R. Epstein
• Global Report on Student Well-Being, Alex C. Michalos
• How to Survive Disasters with Natural Medicine, Cass Ingram
• How to Stay Healthy Abroad, Richard M. Dawood
• International Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Jessica A. Herstein
• The Struggle for Health, David Sander
• Questioning the Solution: The Politics of Primary Health Care and Child Survival, David Werner and David Sanders
• Book Suggestions from Questioning the Solution
• Tropical Gangsters: One Man's Experience with Development and Decadence in Deepest Africa, by Robert Kiltgaardi
• Lords of Poverty - The Power Prestige and Corruption of The International Aid Business, by Graham Hancock
• A New Dawn in Guatemala: Toward a Worldwide Health Vision, edited by Richard Luecke
• Witness to War, An American Doctor in El Salvador, by Charlie Clements

Health and Human Rights, and Public Health

• Humanitarian Crises: The Medical and Public Health Response, Jennifer Leaning
• Gender and Health: An International Perspective, Caroline Fishel Sargent
• Betrayal of Health: The Collapse of Global Public Health, Laurie Garrett
• Reproductive Health: Global Issues, A. Rosenfield
• The Health of Women: A Global Perspective, Marge Koblinsky
• Community Medicine: A Global Perspective, E. William Ebomoyi
• Global Issues: Public Health, Jewett-Saccoman
• Health and Human Rights: A Reader, Jonathan M. Mann
• A Framework for Survival: Health, Human Rights, and Humanitarian Assistance in Conflicts and Disasters, Kenvin M. Cahill
• Health Care Reform: A Human Rights Approach, Audrey R. Chapman
• Negotiating Reproductive Rights, Rosalind P. Petchesky
• Bioethics and Human Rights: A Reader for Health Professionals, Elsie L. Bandman
• Examining Asylum Seekers: A Health Professional's Guide to Medical and Physical Evaluation of Torture, PHR
• Health and Humanitarian Concerns: Principles and Ethics, Henry Leszek Zielinski
• Right to Health as a Human Right in International Law, Toebes Brigit C.A.
• Women's Health and Human Rights: The Promotion and Protection of Women's Health through International Health Rights Law, R.J. Cook

Infectious Diseases

• Timebomb: The Global Epidemic of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis, Lee B. Reichman, Janice Hopkins Tanne
• The Anthropology of Infectious Disease: International Health Perspective, Marcia C. Inhorn
• Disease in Evolution: Global Changes and Emergence of Infectious Diseases, Richard Levins
• Control of Communicable Diseases Manual, edited by Abram S. Benenson
• The Plague, Albert Camus
• The Forgotten Plague, Frank Ryan, MD
• The Coming Plague, by Laurie Garrett
• The Malaria Capers, Tales of Parasites and People, Dr. Robert Desowitz

Travel Medicine

• International Travel Guide, 8th ed. Rose, Stuart
• Travel & Tropical Medicine Manual, E. Jong, R. McMullen (UW Faculty)
• Comprehensive Guide to Wilderness and Travel Medicine, Eric A. Weiss, et al
• Blackwell's Primary Care Essentials: Travel Medicine, Robert P. Smith
• Colour Guide-Travel Medicine, Eric Walker
• International Travel and Health: Vaccination, Requirements, and Health Advice: Situation as on 1 January 2000, WHO
• Manual of Travel Medicine and Health, Robert Steffen
• Principles of Travel Medicine, Jane N. Zucherman

Foreign Literature

• I Will Marry When I Want, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
• Weep Not, Child, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
• Memoirs of a Woman Doctor, Nawaal El Saadawi