Patch's Library: Healthy Living

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The Final Epidemic: Physicians and Scientists on Nuclear War [1]

Author: Adams, Ruth and Susan Cullen, eds.
Publisher: Educational Foundation for Nuclear Sciences, Inc. (1982)

Endangered: Your Child in a Hostile World [2]

Author: Arnold, Johann Christoph
Publisher: Plough Publishing House (2000)

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Clean & Green: The Complete Guide To Nontoxic and Environmentally Safe Housekeeping [3]

Author: Berthold-Bond, Annie
Publisher: Ceres Press (1994)

The Great White Lie: How America's Hospitals Betray Our Trust and Endanger Our Lives [4]

Author: Bogdanich, Walt
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (1991)

High and Mighty: SUVs—The World's Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way [5]

Author: Bradsher, Keith
Publisher: Public Affairs (2002)

Intoxicated by My Illness: And Other Writings on Life and Death [6]

Author: Broyard, Anatole
Publisher: Clarkson Potter (1992)

The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicines for Life on Earth [7]

Author: Buhner, Stephen Harrod
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing (2002)

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Living Poor With Style

Author: Callenbach, Ernest
Publisher: Bantam Books (1972)

Letting Them Die: Why HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs Fail [8]

Author: Campbell, Catherine
Publisher: Indiana University Press (2003)

The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine [9]

Author: Cassell, Eric
Publisher: Oxford University Press (1994)

Unhealthy Health Policy: A Critical Anthropological Examination [10]

Author: Castro, Aracho, et al.
Publisher: Altimira Press (2004)

The Call To Service: A Witness to Idealism [11]

Author: Coles, Robert, M.D.
Publisher: Mariner Books; Reprint edition (1994)

The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 [12]

Author: Crosby, Alfred W., Jr.
Publisher: Praeger Paperback; 30th Annv edition (2003)

Your Money or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System [13]

Author: Cutler, David M.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (2005)

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Moving Mountains: The Race to Treat Global AIDS [14]

Author: D'Adesky, Anne-Christine
Publisher: Verso Books (2004)

Freud's Free Clinics: Psychoanalysis and Social Justice (1918-1938) [15]

Author: Danto, Elizabeth Ann
Publisher: Columbia University Press (2005)

How Can I Help? Stories and Reflections on Service [16]

Author: Dass, Ram and Paul Gorman
Publisher: Knopf (1985)

The Peace Book: 108 Simple Ways To Create A More Peaceful World [17]

Author: Diamond, Louise
Publisher: Conari Press (2001)

Health Security for All: Dreams of Universal Health Care [18]

Author: Derickson, Alan
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press (2005)

Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Achieving Financial Independence [19]

Author: Dominguez, Joe and Vicki Robin
Publisher: Penguin Books (1999)

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Dangerous Doses: How Counterfeiters Are Contaminating America's Drug Supply [20]

Author: Eban, Katherine
Publisher: Harcourt (2005)

Voluntary Simplicity: Toward A Way Of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich [21]

Author: Elgin, Duane
Publisher: Perennial Currents; Revised edition (1998)

Playing God? Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of Public Bioethical Debate [22]

Author: Evans, John H.
Publisher: University of Chicago (2002)

Challenging Inequities in Health: From Ethics to Action [23]

Author: Evans, Timothy, Margaret Whitehead, Finn Diderichsen, Abbas Bhuiya and Meg Wirth, eds.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (2001)

Green Living: The E Magazine Handbook for Living Lightly on the Earth [24]

Author: E Magazine
Publisher: Plume (2005)

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Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor [25]

Author: Farmer, Paul
Publisher: University of California Press (2003)

Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues [26]

Author: Farmer, Paul
Publisher: University of California Press (2001)

Sickness and Wealth: The Corporate Assault on Global Health [27]

Author: Fort, Meredith, Mary Anne Mercer, and Oscar Gish, eds.
Publisher: South End Press (2004)

The Reinvention of Work: A New Vision of Livelihood for Our Time [28]

Author: Fox, Matthew
Publisher: Harper (1995)

The Renewal of Generosity: Illness, Medicine, and How to Live [29]

Author: Frank, Arthur W.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press (2004)

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Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health [30]

Author: Garrett, Laurie
Publisher: Hyperion (2001)

The $800 Million Pill: The Truth behind the Cost of New Drugs [31]

Author: Goozner, Merrill
Publisher: U of California Press (2004)

Nursing Against The Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care [32]

Author: Gordon, Suzanne
Publisher: Cornell University Press (2005)

The AIDS Pandemic: Complacency, Injustice, and Unfulfilled Expectations [33]

Author: Gostin, Lawrence O. and Michael Kirby
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press (2004)

Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic [34]

Author: Graaf, John de, David Wann, and Thomas H. Naylor
Publisher: Barrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. (2002)

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The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System [35]

Author: Hadler, Nortin M.
Publisher: McGill Queen's University Press (2004)

Money, Medicine and Malpractice in American Society [36]

Author: Hay, Iain
Publisher: Praeger (1992)

New Diasporas: The Mass Exodus, Dispersal and Regrouping of Migrant Communities [37]

Author: Hear, Nicholas Van
Publisher: University of Washington Press (1998)

Bleeding the Patient: The Consequences of Corporate Health Care [38]

Author: Himmelstein, David, M.D., Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H., with Ida Hellander, M.D.
Publisher: Common Courage Press (2001)

Health Wars: On the Global Front Lines of Modern Medicine [39]

Author: Horton, Richard
Publisher: New York Review of Books (2003)

AIDS In Asia: A Continent In Peril [40]

Author: Hunter, Susan
Publisher: Palgrave Press (2005)

Prescription For Greed [41]

Author: Hurst, Philip W. and J. Willis Hurst
Publisher: Frederic C. Beil (2000)

The Phenomenology of Internal Time-Consciousness [42]

Author: Husserl, E.
Publisher: Indiana University Press (1964)

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Prescription For Profit: How Doctors Defraud Medicaid [43]

Author: Jesilow, Paul, Henry Pontell and Gilbert Geis
Publisher: University of California Press (1993)

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Coming To Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness [44]

Author: Kabat-Zinn, Jon
Publisher: Hyperion Press (2005)

HIV and AIDS in Africa: Beyond Epidemiology [45]

Author: Kalipeni, Ezekiel and Susan Craddock, Joseph Oppong, Jayati Ghosh, eds.
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing (2003)

On the Take: How Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health [46]

Author: Kassirer, Jerome
Publisher: Oxford University Press (2004)

The Health of Nations: Why Inequality Is Harmful To Your Health [47]

Author: Kawachi, Ichiro and Bruce P. Kennedy
Publisher: New Press (2002)

The Society and Population Health Reader: Income Inequality and Health [48]

Author: Kawachi, Ichiro, Bruce P. Kennedy and Richard G. Wilkinson, eds.
Publisher: New Press (1999)

Dying For Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor [49]

Author: Kim, Jim Yong, Joyce V. Millen, Alec Irwin, and John Gersham, eds.
Publisher: Common Courage Press (2000)

Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Evidence: A Medical Controversy [50]

Author: Kirby, David
Publisher: St. Martin's Press (2005)

The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition [51]

Author: Kleinman, Arthur, M.D.
Publisher: Basic Books (1989)

Mortal Secrets: Truth and Lies in the Age of AIDS [52]

Author: Klitzman, Robert and Ronald Bayer
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press (2005)

Medicine At The Crossroads: The Crisis In Health Care [53]

Author: Konner, Melvin, M.D.
Publisher: Pantheon Books (1993)

Critical Issues In Global Health [54]

Author: Koop, C. Everett, Clarence E. Pearson and M. Roy Schwarz, eds.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass (2002)

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The Medical Mafia: How To Get Out of It Alive and Take Back Health and Wealth [55]

Author: Lanctot, Guylaine, M.D.
Publisher: Here's the Key, Inc. (1995)

Timeless Simplicity: Creative Living In a Consumer Society [56]

Author: Lane, John
Publisher: Green Books (2002)

Humanitarian Crises: The Medical and Public Health Responses [57]

Author: Leaning, Jennifer, Susan M. Briggs, and Lincoln C. Chen, eds.
Publisher: Harvard University Press (1999)

Callings: Finding and Following An Authentic Life [58]

Author: Levoy, Gregg
Publisher: Three Rivers Press (1998)

Terrorism and Public Health: A Balanced Approach to Strengthening Systems and Protecting People [59]

Author: Levy, Barry S., ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (2002)

Physicians and the Peace Movement: Prescriptions for Hope [60]

Author: Lewer, Nick
Publisher: Frank Cass & Co., Ltd. (1992)

The Lost Art of Healing: Practicing Compassion in Medicine [61]

Author: Lown, Bernard, M.D.
Publisher: Ballantine Books (1999)

Severed Trust: Why American Medicine Hasn't Been Fixed--and What We Can Do About It [62]

Author: Lundberg, George D., M.D. and James Stacey
Publisher: Basic Books (2002)

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Perpetration-Induced Traumatic Stress: The Psychological Consequences of Killing (Psychological Dimensions to War and Peace) [63]

Author: MacNair, Rachel M.
Publisher: Praeger (2002)

Saving the Soul of Medicine [64]

Author: Mahony, Margaret A.
Publisher: Robert Reed Publishers (2000)

Health and Human Rights: A Reader [65]

Author: Mann, Jonathan M., Sofia Gruskin, Michael A. Grodin and George A. Annas, eds.
Publisher: Routledge (1999)

The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity [66]

Author: Marmot, Michael
Publisher: Times Books (2004)

Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business and Bad Medicine [67]

Author: Martlett, Donald and James B. Steele
Publisher: Doubleday (2004)

Solidarity With the People of Nicaragua [68]

Author: McGinnis, James
Publisher: Orbis Books (1985)

Medicines Out of Control?: Antidepressants and the Conspiracy of Goodwill [69]

Author: Medawar, Charles
Publisher: Askant (2004)

Healthy, Wealthy and Fair: Health Care and the Good Society [70]

Author: Morone, James A., and Lawrence R. Jacobs, eds.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (2005)

The Politics of Health Care Reform: Lessons From the Past, Prospects For the Future [71]

Author: Morone, James A. and Gary S. Belkin, eds.
Publisher: Duke University Press (1994)

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Incidental Findings: Lessons From My Patients In the Art of Medicine [72]

Author: Ofri, Danielle
Publisher: Beacon Press (2005)

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One Nation Uninsured: Why the U.S. Has No National Health Insurance [73]

Author: Quadagno, Jill
Publisher: Oxford University Press (2005)

Physician-Assisted Dying: The Case for Palliative Care and Patient Choice [74]

Author: Quill, Timothy E., MD. and Margaret P. Battin, Ph.D., eds.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press (2004)

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Medicine, Money and Morals: Physicians' Conflicts of Interest [75]

Author: Rodwin, Marc A.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (1993)

Marginal to Mainstream: Alternative Medicine in America [76]

Author: Ruggie, Mary
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (2004)

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Generations at Risk: Reproductive Health and the Environment [77]

Author: Schettler, Ted, Gina Solomon, Maria Valenti and Annette Huddle
Publisher: M.I.T. Press (1999)

Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine [78]

Author: Scull, Andrew
Publisher: Yale University Press (2005)

Essentials of Medical Geology: Impacts of the Natural Environment on Public Health [79]

Author: Selinus, Olle
Publisher: Academic Press (2005)

Ripples From the Zambezi: Passion, Entrepreneurship, and the Rebirth of Local Economies [80]

Author: Sirolli, Ernesto
Publisher: New Society Publishers (1999)

Seeds of Peace: A Buddhist Vision for Renewing Society [81]

Author: Sivaraksa, Sulak
Publisher: Parallax Press (1991)

The Price of Smoking [82]

Author: Sloan, Frank A.
Publisher: The MIT Press (2004)

One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance [83]

Author: Sommers, Christina Hoff and Sally Satel
Publisher: St. Martin's Press (2005)

Climate of Fear: The Quest for Dignity in a Dehumanized World (Reith Lectures) [84]

Author: Soyinka, Wole
Publisher: Random, House (2005)

The Treatment: The Story of Those Who Died in the Cincinnati Radiation Tests [85]

Author: Stephens, Martha
Publisher: Duke University Press (2002)

In Sickness and In Wealth: American Hospitals in the Twentieth Century [86]

Author: Stevens, Rosemary
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press (1999)

Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future [87]

Author: Stock, Gregory
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co. (2002)

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Homes That Heal and Those That Don't: How Your Home Could Be Harming Your Family's Health [88]

Author: Thompson, Athena
Publisher: New Society Publishers (2004)

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Famine That Kills: Darfur, Sudan [89]

Author: de Waal, Alex and Alexander de Waal
Publisher: Oxford University Press (2004)

First Do No Harm: The Cure for Medical Malpractice [90]

Author: Williams, Ira. E.
Publisher: Corinthian Books (2004)