Decolonise the Medical Curriculum Reading List
by George Webster
(@_itsjust_g / @medicreads)
Genetics:
Genetic Geographies: The Trouble with Ancestry- Catherine Nash.
The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine: Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-sachs, Cystic Fibrosis and Sickle Cell Disease- Keith Wailoo and Stephen Pemberton.
Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science- Kim TallBear.
Troublesome Science: The Misuse of Genetics and Genomics in Understanding Race- Rob Desalle.
Political Biology- Maurizio Meloni.
Reproductive Health:
Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology- Deirdre Benia Cooper Owens.
Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization- Khiara Bridges.
Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy and Premature Birth- Dana-Ain Davis.
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty- Dorothy Roberts.
Historical:
Sentenced to Science- Allen M. Hornblum and Harriet A. Washington.
Medical Apartheid- Harriet A. Washington.
Acres of Skin- Allen M. Hornblum.
Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics- Lundy Braun.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks- Rebecca Skloot.
American Eugenics: Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism- Nancy Ordover.
An American Health Dilemma: A Medical History of African Americans and the Problem of Race- Michael Byrd and Linda A. Clayton.
Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination- Alondra Nelson.
Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines- Warwick Anderson.
Contagious Communities: Medicine, Migration and the NHS in Post War Britain- Roberta Bivins.
Making a Place for Ourselves: The Black Hospital Movement. 1920-1945- Vanessa Northington Gamble.
Health Rights Are Civil Rights: Peace and Justice Activism in Los Angeles, 1963-1978- Jenna M. Loyd.
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing- Joy DeGruy.
The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism- Stephan Kuhl.
War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race- Edwin Black.
Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire- Suman Seth.
Measuring Manhood: Race and the Science of Masculinity, 1830–1934- Melissa N. Stein.
Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America- Laurie B. Green, John McKiernan-Gonzalez and Martin Summers.
Psychiatry, psychology and counselling:
Aliens and Alienists: Ethnic Minorities and Psychiatry- Roland Littlewood and Maurice Lipsedge.
The Challenge of Racism in Therapeutic Practice: Engaging with Oppression in Practice and Supervision- Isha McKenzie-Mavinga.
Black Issues in the Therapeutic Process- Isha McKenzie-Mavinga.
Crazy Like Us: The Globalisation of the Western Mind- Ethan Watters.
Black Skin, White Masks- Frantz Fanon.
Mental Health, Race and Culture- Suman Fernando.
Cultural Diversity, Mental Health and Psychiatry: The Struggle Against Racism- Suman Fernando.
Decolonizing Global Mental Health- China Mills.
Working with Interpreters in Mental Health- Rachel Tribe and Hitesh Raval.
The Wretched of the Earth- Frantz Fanon.
The Colour of Madness: Exploring BAME Mental Health in the UK- Samara Linton and Rianna Walcott.
Working with Ethnicity, Race and Culture in Mental Health: A Handbook for Practitioners- Hari Sewell.
Institutional Racism in Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology: Race Matters in Mental Health- Suman Fernando.
Racism & Mental Health: Prejudice and Suffering- Kamaldeep Bhui.
Racism & Psychiatry- Alexander Thomas and Samuel Sillen.
Schizophrenics Can Be Good Mothers Too- QS Lam.
Textbook of Cultural Psychiatry- Dinesh Bhugra and Kamldeep Bhui.
The Butterfly and the Serpent: Essays in Psychiatry, Race and Religion- Roland Littlewood.
The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease- Jonathan M. Metzl.
The Developmental Psychology of the Black Child- Amos N. Wilson.
Hunger So Wide And So Deep: A Multiracial View of Women’s Eating Problems- Becky Thompson.
Being White in the Helping Professions: Developing Effective Intercultural Awareness- Judy Ryde.
Oncology:
How Cancer Crossed the Color Line- Keith Wailoo.
Culture and Cancer Care- Simon Dein.
The Cancer Journals- Audre Lorde.
Dermatology:
Mind the Gap: A Handbook of Clinical Signs on Black and Brown Skin- Malone Mukwende, Margot Turner and Peter Tamony.
Taylor and Kelly’s Dermatology for Skin of Colour- Susan Taylor and A. Paul Kelly.
Biography and Autobiography:
Black Man in a White Coat- Damon Tweedy.
Did He Save Lives: A Surgeon’s Story- David Sellu.
Living and Dying in Brick City- Sampson Davis and Lisa Frazier.
Gifted Hands- Ben Carson.
Seeing Patients: A Surgeon’s Story of Race and Medical Bias- Augustus A. White.
“Scientific” Origins of Race and the Legacy of Scientific Racism:
Is Science Racist?- Jonathan Marks.
Fatal Invention- Dorothy Roberts.
Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism- John Hoberman.
Medicine and Slavery: The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia- Todd L. Savitt.
Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840- Rana A. Hogarth.
Medicine and Slavery: The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia- Todd L. Savitt.
Darwin's Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race- John Hoberman.
The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea- Robert Wald Sussman.
Superior: The Return of Race Science- Angela Saini.
Thicker Than Blood: How Racial Statistics Lie- Tukufu Zuberi.
Race Unmasked: Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century- Michael Yudell.
The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills- David A. Ansell.
Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Heath Care- Committee on Understanding and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care.
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia- Sabrina Strings.
Ebola: How a People’s Science Helped End and Epidemic- Paul Richards.
Antiblack Racism and the AIDS Epidemic: State Intimacies- Adam M. Geary.
Blood Sugar: Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America- Anthony Ryan Hatch.
Deadly River: Cholera and Cover-Up in Post-Earthquake Haiti- Ralph R. Frerichs.
Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age- Jonathan Kahn.
Subprime Health: Debt and Race in U.S. Medicine- Nadine Ehlers and Leslie R. Hinksons.
Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes- James Doucet-Battle.
Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease- Arleen Marcia Tuchman.
Testing Fate: Tay-Sachs Disease and the Right to Be Responsible- Shelley Z. Reuter.
Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care- Dayna Bowen Matthew.
Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit- Mary-Frances Winters.
Spirituality and Culture:
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down- Anne Fadiman.
A Different Medicine: Postcolonial Healing in the Native American Church- Joseph D. Calabrese.
Spirituality in Patient Care: Why, How, When and What- Harold G Koenig.
Sickle Cell:
Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health- Keith Wailoo.
In the Blood: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race- Melbourne Tapper.