The holiday season is fast approaching, offering many of us more opportunities to catch up on our reading. We’re here to help—in the latest edition of our Bioethics Bookshelf series, we’re sharing titles written or edited by members of our Faculty Scholars community that were published since our last edition of the series, which delve into epidemiological and social medicine, race and the biohumanities, and disabled experiences.
The New Modern Medicine: Disease, Evidence, and Epidemiological Medicine by Jonathan Fuller, MD, PhD
Greenwall Faculty Scholar Dr. Fuller provides a philosophical treatment of “the new modern medicine,” an epidemiological medicine that has dominated health care for decades. He utilizes resources from the philosophy of science and medicine to examine disease and evidence in the new modern medicine, particularly problems brought about by the 20th century integration of medicine with epidemiology.
The Racial Cage co-written by Anthony Ryan Hatch, PhD, et al.
Faculty Scholars Program Committee Member Prof. Hatch and coauthors deliver an analysis of how race materializes through metaphorical and literal cages, theorizing the cage as material–semiotic sites for racialization and iteratively redefining the human–animal boundary. The book provides an empirical and theoretical approach to biohumanities that interrogates its linkages to critical theories of race and racism.
The Art of Flourishing: Conversations on Disability co-edited by Joel Michael Reynolds, PhD, et al.
Based on a series of public talks hosted by The Hastings Center, The Art of Flourishing depicts the range of priorities, practices, and possibilities that characterize disabled experience. Faculty Scholar Alum Prof. Reynolds and co-editors invite scholarly and public audiences to imagine what it would take to build a world in which everyone gets to exercise their own capacities in ways they find meaningful.
Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine co-edited by Jeremy A. Greene, MD, PhD, et al.
In Medicine on a Larger Scale, Faculty Scholar Alum Dr. Greene and co-editors draw together case studies of social medicine in the Global South, shifting understanding of social science in health care and looking beyond a narrative originating in 19th century Europe. The book highlights social medicine's connections to social justice and health equity, social science and state formation, bottom-up community initiatives, grassroots movements, and an array of revolutionary sensibilities.
Need more book recommendations? Check out previous installments of our Bioethics Bookshelf series here, here, and here, featuring more great reads from our Faculty Scholars community that you might have missed.