Global Health Resource Library
About the Global Health Resource Library:
The Global Health Resource Library is a small, but growing collection of books, DVDs, CDs and other resources that are related to the topic of global health. The collection lives permanently in the Lamar Soutter Library at the UMass Chan Medical School (UMMS), and are available for all members of the UMMS community to use.
The resources can both be used in the library, and checked out for use at home, in the hospital, or even while you are travelling on a global health experience outside of the U.S.
The books and other resources that are part of the Global Health Resource Library can be found together in the Humanities in Medicine collection, which is located near the Rare Book Room. These resources will be tagged with a special sticker of a globe, so they can easily be identified."
If you see a book that has this label on the inside cover, then it is part of the Global Health Resource Library.
Background:
In March 2016, a small collection of books was purchased thanks to the efforts of the UMMS medical students who have led the student-led Global Health Topics In Action Optional Enrichment Elective (i.e., Raghu Appasani, Nichole Lang and Jerome Rogich from the UMMS Class of 2018; Simone Miller and Marie-Michele Sainvil from the UMMS Class of 2017), Michael Chin, Len Levin & other staff at the UMMS Lamar Soutter Library.
How to contribute:
- We want to hear from you! Please send us an email to suggest a book or other resource that you'd like to be added to the Global Health Resource Library.
- We welcome your contribution! If you'd like to contribute a book or other resource (e.g., a book that you've finished reading and want to donate to the library so other UMMS community members can use it), or if you'd like to make a financial donation so that we can make new additions to the collection, then please send us an email.
List of current resources available in the Global Health Resource Library
The following list is arranged alphabetically, by title.
| Title | Author |
| A Book for Midwives This title is expected to be added in July or August 2017. |
Susan Klein, et. al. |
| Banana: Fate of the fruit that changed the world | Dan Koeppel |
| Betrayal of Trust | Laurie Garrett |
| Black Man in a White Coat | Damon Tweedy |
| Caring for Patients from Different Cultures | Geri-Ann Galanti |
| Ciottone's Disaster Medicine | Gregory Ciottone |
| Confessions of an Economic Hitman | John Perkins |
| Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa | Dambisa Moyo |
| Do No Harm: How Aid Can Support Peace - Or War | Mary B. Anderson |
| Donde no hay dentista This title is expected to be added in July or August 2017. |
Murray Dickson |
| Donde no hay doctor This title is expected to be added in July or August 2017. |
David Werner |
| Guns, Germs and Steel | Jared Diamond |
| Haiti After the Earthquake | Paul Farmer |
| Haiti The Aftershocks of History | Laurent Dubois |
| Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues | Paul Farmer |
| Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? | Susan Okin |
| King Leopold's Ghost | Adam Hochschild |
| Mountains Beyond Mountains | Tracy Kidder |
| Pedagogy of the Oppressed | Paulo Freire |
| Pocket Book of Hospital Care for Children (WHO) This title is expected to be added in July or August 2017. |
WHO |
| Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty | Abhijit Banerjee |
| Portfolios of the Poor: How the world's poor live on $2 | Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, Orlanda Rutheven |
| Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine This title is expected to be added in July or August 2017. |
Andrew Brent, Robert Davidson, Anna Seale |
| Reimaging Global Health | Paul Farmer |
| Revolutionary Doctors: How Venezuela and Cuba are Changing the World's Conception of Health Care This title is expected to be added in July or August 2017. |
Steve Brouwer |
| The Dancing Healers: A Doctor's Journey of Healing with Native Americans | Carl Hammerschlag |
| The End of Poverty | Jeffrey Sachs |
| The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the quest to end poverty (this is a critical review of his millennium villages project) | Nina Munk |
| The Lassa Ward: One Man's Fight Against One of the World's Deadliest Diseases | Ross Donaldson |
| The Little Black Book of International Medicine This title is expected to be added in July or August 2017. |
William Alto |
| The Motorcycle Diaries | Ernesto Che Guevara |
| The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness | Michelle Alexander |
| The Price of Sugar (DVD) This title is expected to be added in July or August 2017. |
Bill Haney (Director) |
| The Spirit Catches you and you fall down | Anne Fadiman |
| The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good | William Easterly |
| When Invisible Children Sing | Chi Cheng Huang |
| Where there is no doctor This title is expected to be added in July or August 2017. |
David Werner |
Resources that we would like to add to the Global Health Resource Library in the future:
| Title | Author |
| Where there is no dentist; English-language version | Murray Dickson |
Other library resources that may be of interest:
- The Humanities in Medicine (HIM) Collection (at the UMMS Lamar Soutter Library: this collection includes works of classic and contemporary literature, poetry, patient and caregiver narratives and biographies, medical history, as well as film and video selections.
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