Engaging the World on Health Equity Through ReadingMain MenuIntroductionWhy these books?Ailing in Place: Environmental Inequities and Health Disparities in AppalachiaMichele MorroneAmerican Health Crisis: One Hundred Years of Panic, Planning, and PoliticsMartin HalliwellAmerica’s Arab Refugees: Vulnerability and Health on the MarginsMarcia C. InhornBedlam: An Intimate Journey into America's Mental Health CrisisKenneth Paul RosenbergBlack Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic PlagueDavid K RandallChanging Planet, Changing Health: How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do about ItPaul R. Epstein (Author), Dan Ferber (Author), Jeffrey Sachs (Foreword)CherryNico WalkerDelugeLelia ChattiDying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and HealthKeith WailooA Family History of Illness: Memory as MedicineBrett L. WalkerThe Family Roe: An American StoryJoshua PragerFit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939Natalia MolinaHaiti: After the EarthquakePaul FarmerHow the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in AmericaPriya Fielding-Singh, PhDMad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally IllRobert WhitakerNot Invisible: A Collection of Poems about Chronic IllnessTiffany MoharPushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol CigaretteKeith WailooSince the House is BurningTale of Two PlanetsJohn Freeman (editor)Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our NationLinda VillarosaUnwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made WorldElinor CleghornWhat Happens Is NeitherAngela Narciso TorresWhat the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American CityMona Hanna-AttishaWhich Country Has the World's Best Health Care?Ezekiel J. EmanuelAbout the curatorAcknowledgementsVesper North9c258319e12f98ebd7884dfac94793204ec38858Chapman University
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Climate change is now doing far more harm than marooning polar bears on melting chunks of ice—it is damaging the health of people around the world. Brilliantly connecting stories of real people with cutting-edge scientific and medical information, Changing Planet, Changing Health brings us to places like Mozambique, Honduras, and the United States for an eye-opening on-the-ground investigation of how climate change is altering patterns of disease. Written by a physician and world expert on climate and health and an award-winning science journalist, the book reveals the surprising links between global warming and cholera, malaria, lyme disease, asthma, and other health threats. In clear, accessible language, it also discusses topics including Climategate, cap-and-trade proposals, and the relationship between free markets and the climate crisis. Most importantly, Changing Planet, Changing Health delivers a suite of innovative solutions for shaping a healthy global economic order in the twenty-first century.