Getting What We Deserve: Health and Medical Care in America

Further Reading, Films, and Websites of Interest

123 6 Further Reading, Films, and Websites of Interest The number of books, journal articles, movies, and Websites relevant to the subjects I’ve discussed is virtually limitless. For those with the time and interest, I list here a few of my favorites. They add considerable depth and color to this book’s summary of core principles. Included are some helpful and largely reliable Websites for up-to-date information and recommendations. Life before Modern Public Health Bergman, Ingmar (director). The Seventh Seal. Criterion, 1956, film. McNeill,William H. Plagues and Peoples. NewYork: Doubleday, 1977. Tuchman, Barbara W. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century. NewYork: Random House, 1978. The Discovery of Microbes: A Classic Tale De Kruif, Paul. Microbe Hunters. NewYork: Harcourt, 1926. The Effects of Infectious Disease on Society Mann,Thomas. The Magic Mountain. Translation by John E. Woods. New York: Vintage, 1996. 124 Further Reading, Films, and Websites Rothman, Sheila M. Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of Illness in American History. NewYork: HarperCollins , 1995. Zinsser, Hans. Rats, Lice, and History. Boston: Little, Brown, 1934. Battling Infectious Disease Barry, John M. The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History. NewYork: Penguin, 2004. Davies, Peter. The Devil’s Flu. NewYork: Henry Holt, 1959. Fenner, F., D. A. Henderson, I. Arita, Z. Jezek, and I. D. Ladnyi. Smallpox and Its Eradication. Geneva: World Health Organization, 1988. Garrett, Laurie. Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health. New York: Hyperion, 2000. Oshinsky, David M. Polio: An American Story. NewYork: Oxford University Press, 2005. Packard, Randall M. The Making of a Tropical Disease: A Short History of Malaria. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Ryan, Frank. The Forgotten Plague: How the Battle against Tuberculosis Was Won—and Lost. Boston: Little, Brown, 1992. Noninfectious Disease, Epidemiology, and the Nature of Evidence Brandt,Allan M. The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the ProductThat Defined America. NewYork: Basic Books, 2007. Huber, Peter W. Galileo’s Revenge: Junk Science in the Courtroom. NewYork: Basic Books, 1991. Mann, Michael (director). The Insider. Buena Vista Pictures, 1999, film. Marmot, Michael, and Richard G. Wilkinson. Social Determinants of Health. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pollan, Michael. In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto. NewYork: Penguin , 2008. Ridley, Matt. Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters. New York: HarperCollins, 1999. Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. NewYork: Houghton Mifflin, 2001 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Health Conse- Further Reading, Films, and Websites 125 quences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report of the Surgeon General. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Coordinating Center for Health Promotion, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2006. (All Surgeon General’s Reports on Smoking are also available online: www.cdc.gov/tobacco.) U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Public Health Service. Office of the Surgeon General, 1964. Woodham-Smith, Cecil. The Great Hunger: Ireland, 1845–1849. London: Penguin, 1962 Medical Care, Policy, and Outcomes Brownlee, Shannon. Overtreated: WhyToo Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer. NewYork: Bloomsbury USA, 2008. Porter, Roy. The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity. NewYork: Norton, 1997. Informational Websites American Cancer Society: www.cancer.org American Heart Association: www.americanheart.org Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: www.cdc.gov Clinical Practice Guidelines: www.guideline.gov Commonwealth Fund: www.commonwealthfund.org Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care: www.dartmouthatlas.org Healthy People 2010: www.healthypeople.gov Institute for Vaccine Safety: www.vaccinesafety.edu Institute of Medicine: www.iom.edu Kaiser Family Foundation: www.kff.org National Institutes of Health: www.nih.gov Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development: www.oecd.org/health Preventive Services Task Force: www.ahrq.gov/clinic/prevnew.htm World Health Organization: www.who.int/en This page intentionally left blank ...