Health and Care for all: a reading list
Jessica
As the NHS turns 75, thousands are being failed by a system that was created to provide free health care for all - a notion ostensibly based on justice. Today, thousands suffer from treatable conditions as health care workers are driven to the ground and work forces are decimated. Behind this assault on all our safety is, of course, a government that values profit more than life and wellbeing. Accessible health care was, furthermore, never for everyone - mirroring societal oppression.
What's happening to free healthcare in the UK is linked to health injustice worldwide in a capitalist society, and can't be thought of as separate. Below are a books that tackle health injustice head-on in a variety of contexts, along with a wee list of resources and organisations - folks who fiercely work for health equality.
Healing Justice London - Working for and with communities surviving state and systemic oppression, nurturing the work of radical and holistic medicine.
Global Justice Now - driving campaigns for global justice, including one against big pharmaceutical companies. You can sign a petition HERE to stop big pharma from profiteering off the NHS.
LGBT Health and Wellbeing - Promoting the health, wellbeing and equality of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT+) adults (16+) in Scotland.
Linked Books
![Image for Health Communism](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97818397/9781839765162.jpg)
- title
- Health Communism
- author
- Adler-Bolton, Beatrice
![Image for Pharmanomics : How Big Pharma Destroys Global Health](https://jackets.dmmserver.com/media/356/97818042/9781804291450.jpg)
- title
- Pharmanomics : How Big Pharma Destroys Global Health
- author
- Nick Dearden
![Image for Care Work : Dreaming Disability Justice](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97815515/9781551527383.jpg)
- title
- Care Work : Dreaming Disability Justice
- author
- Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi
![Image for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97815098/9781509877027.jpg)
- title
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- author
- Skloot, Rebecca
![Image for The Care Manifesto : The Politics of Compassion](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97818397/9781839760969.jpg)
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- The Care Manifesto : The Politics of Compassion
- author
- The Care Collective, Andreas, Chatzidakis, Hakim, Litter, Rottenberg, Segal
![Image for The Care Crisis : What Caused It and How Can We End It?](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97817866/9781786630353.jpg)
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- The Care Crisis : What Caused It and How Can We End It?
- author
- Dowling, Emma
![Image for And the Band Played On : Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97817881/9781788167734.jpg)
- title
- And the Band Played On : Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
- author
- Shilts, Randy
![Image for Disability Visibility](https://jackets.dmmserver.com/media/356/97819848/9781984899422.jpg)
- title
- Disability Visibility
- author
- Ed Alice Wong
![Image for Doing Harm](https://jackets.dmmserver.com/media/356/97800624/9780062470805.jpg)
- title
- Doing Harm
- author
- Maya Dusenbery
![Image for Ill Feelings](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97819130/9781913097646.jpg)
- title
- Ill Feelings
- author
- Hattrick, Alice
![Image for The Work Cure : Critical essays on work and wellness](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97819109/9781910919439.jpg)
- title
- The Work Cure : Critical essays on work and wellness
- author
- Frayne, David
![Image for Trans Medicine : The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97814798/9781479899371.jpg)
- title
- Trans Medicine : The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender
- author
- Shuster, Stef M.
![Image for Medical Monopoly : Intellectual Property Rights and the Origins of the Modern Pharmaceutical Industry](https://jackets.dmmserver.com/media/356/97802267/9780226710228.jpg)
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- Medical Monopoly : Intellectual Property Rights and the Origins of the Modern Pharmaceutical Industry
- author
- Joseph M. Gabriel
![Image for Who Cares : The Hidden Crisis of Caregiving, and How We Solve It](https://jackets.dmmserver.com/media/356/97814722/9781472288486.jpg)
- title
- Who Cares : The Hidden Crisis of Caregiving, and How We Solve It
- author
- Emily Kenway
![Image for Sitting Pretty : The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body](https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51ep34kWvtS._SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_ML2_.jpg)
- title
- Sitting Pretty : The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
- author
- Taussig, Rebekah
![Image for Bodies And Barriers : Queer Activists on Health](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97816296/9781629637846.jpg)
- title
- Bodies And Barriers : Queer Activists on Health
- author
- Shanker, Adrian, Levine, Rachel L, Kendell, Kate
![Image for Crippled : Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97817887/9781788739566.jpg)
- title
- Crippled : Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People
- author
- Ryan, Frances