Amy Maxmen, PhD Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Amy Maxmen is a science journalist. Award-winning science reporter covering health & inequality. Words @Nature @NYTimes @WashingtonPost @KFFHealthNews. She/her.
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
Paul FarmerAmy Maxmen, PhDI could go on. As @Ethnography911 told me of her mentor & colleague Paul Farmer, "He was brilliant." And on her recommendation, I'm now reading Pathologies of Power. Wish I had come to his writing sooner, but his legacy lives on in people & words. https://t.co/2Ilyh8Sf13
Paperback, 2004
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Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History
Jori LewisAmy Maxmen, PhD'Slaves for Peanuts' by @jorilewis is a beautiful, troubling, deeply researched book about conquest, abolition & the appetite for our favorite seed. My book review @Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01736-6
Paperback, 2024
$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Covid-19: Coronavirus Disease - Predictions of the pandemic and how you can stay safe
Mba MartinsAmy Maxmen, PhDBy far the smartest piece I've read yet on #COVID19 vaccines by a brilliant writer specializing in epidemics @marynmck. A glimpse at history shows it's not simply find vaccine->give vaccine. “The last, awful act of any pandemic, is amnesia.” A must read: https://www.wired.com/story/we-need-a-covid-19-vaccine-lets-get-it-right-the-first-time/
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Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines
Victor RoyAmy Maxmen, PhDI meant to add @victorroy, who has a new book that you can download for free! "Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines" https://t.co/aoFm8cubFf
Paperback, 2023
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Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains
Bethany BrookshireAmy Maxmen, PhDWhy have humans decided that some furry & feathered animals are friends & others are pests? @BeeBrookshire has all the answers in her debut book, which I just pre-ordered because it sounds Awesome.
Paperback, 2023
$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Political Writings
Theodore DreiserAmy Maxmen, PhD@jonshaffer @PesteMagazine It's in a collection I'm reading: "Theodore Dreiser: Political Writings"
Hardcover, 2011
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