DGH Suggested Reading List

Community Health Care Globalization and Health Human Rights and Liberation Medicine
General Latin America El Salvador Mexico Nicaragua Uganda Human Rights in the Arts

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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

Human Rights and Liberation Medicine

Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor, by Paul Farmer

Health and Human Rights: A Reader, edited by Jonathan Mann

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

Human Rights in the Arts

DGH Reporter, Spring/Summer 2005 - Volume 9, Issue 1

DGH Reporter, Fall/Winter 2003 - Volume 7, Issue 2

DGH Reporter, Fall/Winter 2002 - Volume 6, Issue 2

DGH Reporter, Fall 2001 - Volume 5, Issue 1

DGH Reporter, Spring/Summer 2000 - Volume 4, Issue 1

DGH Reporter, Spring 1999 - Volume 3, Issue 1

DGH Reporter, Spring 1998 - Volume 2, Issue 1