Nonfiction - Black Reads
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Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00Original price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /“Paul Farmer brings his considerable intellect, empathy, and expertise to bear in this powerful and deeply researched account of the Ebola outbre...
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Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy
PaperbackOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /The forty-year Tuskegee Syphilis Study, which took place in and around Tuskegee, Alabama, from the 1930s through the 1970s, has become a profound...
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We'll Fight It Out Here: A History of the Ongoing Struggle for Health Equity
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /How a coalition of Black health professions schools made health equity a national issue.Winner of the Phillis Wheatley Award by the Sons & Daug...
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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation's last segregat...
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American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and ch...
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Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner AwardWinner of James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize, SHEARWinner of the Kemper and Leila Williams Priz...
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Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Black women physicians’ stories have gone untold for far too long, leaving gaping holes in American medical history, in women’s history, and in b...
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Black Health in the South
HardcoverOriginal price $64.95 - Original price $64.95Original price $64.95$80.99$80.99 - $80.99Current price $80.99| /A collection of important essays on the health and well-being of African Americans in the southern United States.For African Americans in the south...
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Adventures of a Disease Detective
PaperbackOriginal price $13.00 - Original price $13.00Original price $13.00$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Memoir of disease detective.When Mark White quit his job as head bubonic plague epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention an...
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Mini Saga in South Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Hilary's desire to explore South Africa and experience African culture, while helping to improve the lives of children, was inspired at school in E...
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Collapse and Resiliency: The Inside Story of Liberia's Unprecedented Ebola Response
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /An insider account of how an African public health leader responded to an unprecedented Ebola outbreak.Tolbert Nyenswah, LLB, MPH, DrPH, was the as...
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Vaccines: History, Science, and Issues
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Providing scientifically accurate, detailed, and accessible information to students and general readers, this book presents the history of vaccinat...
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Black Women's Mental Health: Balancing Strength and Vulnerability
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /This book offers a unique, interdisciplinary, and thoughtful look at the challenges and potency of Black women's struggle for inner peace and men...
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Improbable MD
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /In Improbable MD, Dr. Derek J. Robinson traces his unlikely journey from fishing on the bayous of Louisiana, to an ER and helicopter flight physici...
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Improbable MD
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /In Improbable MD, Dr. Derek J. Robinson traces his unlikely journey from fishing on the bayous of Louisiana, to an ER and helicopter flight physici...
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More Than a Doctor: The Extraordinary Life of Samuel Ulysses Rodgers
HardcoverOriginal price $34.99Original price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Ever wonder who the successful person is behind the big headlines and accolades? Dr. Samuel U. Rodgers often quoted Henry David Thoreau's statement...
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On Uganda's Terms: A Journal by an American Nurse-Midwife Working for Change in Uganda, East Africa During IDI Amin's Regime
PaperbackOriginal price $20.95 - Original price $20.95Original price $20.95$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /On Uganda's Terms is the gripping tale of the author's experiences as an American nurse during the vicious and brutal reign of Idi Amin. Ms. Hale t...
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Resisting Jim Crow: The Autobiography of Dr. John A. McFall
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /John McFall was born in Charleston, S.C. in 1878-the year after the disputed South Carolina gubernatorial election that marked the end of Reconstru...
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Liberated From the Hill
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"I must preface everything you are about to read with the indisputable fact that I am proud of the place where I was raised."Liberty Hill is what R...
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Footprints on African Hearts and Lands: The Life and Work of Dr. Samuel W. Hynd
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /The life of Dr. Samuel Wilson Hynd has been devoted to the care of the people of the Kingdom of Swaziland. In this tiny landlocked country he has b...
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Working The Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing
PaperbackOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /African American traditional medicine is an American classic that emerged out of the necessity of its people to survive. It began with the healing ...
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Pregnant While Black: Advancing Justice for Maternal Health in America
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A tragedy is unfolding all around us and is receiving well overdue attention. Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy than th...
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Having Your Baby: For the Special Needs of Black Mothers-To-Be, from Conception to Newborn Care
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00Original price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /African-American women face unique challenges during pregnancy. Here is a they can turn to for medical information, health advice, and emotional su...
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I Can't Save You: A Memoir
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The raw and gripping memoir of a Black physician who confronts his past mistakes and relationships as he learns to find his own path forward At fi...
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