Background Reading

WRITINGS ON LIBERATION MEDICINE

The following writings on Liberation Medicine offer a full spectrum of perspectives on this relatively new subject.

• Liberation Medicine: Health & Justice, By Lanny Smith, MD, with Ken Hilsbos, MD, DGH Reporter, Spring 1999.

• What We Do and Why We Do It: Summary of Keynote Speech by Jack Geiger, MD, at General Assembly, August 2002, Boston, MA.

• The Invincibility of the Human Spirit: One Doctor's Story Social Justice Speech by Juan Romagoza, MD, at General Assembly, August 2002, Boston, MA.

• Presentations from the Liberation Medicine Workshop at the APHA Annual Conference:
• Caring, Compassion and Humility: A Proposed New Model for Medicine Closer to the Heart, By Ken Hilsbos, M.D.
• A Personal Reflection On The Concept Of Liberation Medicine, By Jennifer Kasper, M.D., M.P.H.
• Brief Reflections on Liberation Medicine's Roots in Liberation Theology, By Audrey Lenhart.
• Liberation Medicine: Health From a Social Context, By Aun Lor, M.P.H.
• Liberation Medicine: Observation and Reflection on Experience and Concrete Suggestions to Action in the Promotion of Human dignity and Social Justice through Health and Human Rights, By Joy Mockbee, M.D., M.P.H.
• Toward a Liberation Movement, By Monica Sanchez.

 

RECOMMENDED BOOKS

Community Health Care

• Where There is No Doctor, by David Werner
• Helping Health Workers Learn, by David Werner and Bill Bower

Globalization and Health

• Dying for Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor, edited by Jim Yong Kim
• Textbook of International Health: Global Health in a Dynamic World, by Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Yogan Pillay, and Timothy H. Holtz

Human Rights and Liberation Medicine

• Health and Human Rights: A Reader, edited by Jonathan Mann
• Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor, by Paul Farmer
• Women's Global Health and Human Rights, edited by Padmini Murthy and Clyde Lanford Smith

General Latin America

• Open Veins of Latin America, by Eduardo Galeano
• Inevitable Revolutions, by Walter LaFeber

El Salvador

• Bitter Grounds: A Novel, by Sandra Benitez
• The Weight of All Things: A Novel, by Sandra Benitez
• Witness to War, by Charlie Clements
• The Massacre at El Mozote, by Mark Danner
• In Search of Refuge, by Yvonne Dilling
• In The Mountains of Morazan, by Mandy Macdonald and Mike Gatehouse
• Historia de El Salvador, published by Equipo Maiz
• From Grandmother to Granddaughter, Salvadoran Women's Stories, by Michael Gorkin, Marta Pineda and Gloria Leal
• Revolution in El Salvador, by Tommie Sue Montgomery
• Hear My Testimony, by Maria Teresa Tula, Human Rights Activist of El Salvador; edited and translated by Lynn Stephen

Mexico

• Waiting for Justice in Chiapas, by Physicians for Human Rights and Human Rights Watch
• Rebellion from the Roots, by John Ross

Nicaragua

• The Best of What We Are: Reflections on the Nicaraguan Revolution, by John Brentlinger

• The Death of Ben Linder: the Story of a North American Sandinista in Nicaragua, by Joan Kruckewitt

• Nicaragua: A Country Guide, by Kent Norsworthy

• Sandino's Daughters Revisited: Feminism in Nicaragua, by Margaret Randall

• In Focus Nicaragua: A Guide to the People, Politics and Culture, by Hazel Plunkett

Uganda

• African Friends and Money Matters, by David E. Maranz

• Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress, by Lawrence Harrison and Samuel Huntington (particularly the essay by Etounga- Manguelle)

• Sewing the Mustard Seed: The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in Uganda, by Yoweri Kaguta Museveni

• Uganda Since Independence, by Phares Mutibwa