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Amy Maxmen, PhD Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Amy Maxmen is a science journalist. Award-winning science reporter covering health & inequality. Words @Nature @NYTimes @WashingtonPost @KFFHealthNews. She/her.

6 books
Book Cover for: Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor, Paul Farmer

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

Paul Farmer
Amy Maxmen, PhDAmy Maxmen, PhD

I 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

$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History, Jori Lewis

Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History

Jori Lewis
Amy Maxmen, PhDAmy 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

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Covid-19: Coronavirus Disease - Predictions of the pandemic and how you can stay safe, Mba Martins

Covid-19: Coronavirus Disease - Predictions of the pandemic and how you can stay safe

Mba Martins
Amy Maxmen, PhDAmy Maxmen, PhD

By 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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Book Cover for: Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines, Victor Roy

Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines

Victor Roy
Amy Maxmen, PhDAmy Maxmen, PhD

I 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

$34.95$17.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains, Bethany Brookshire

Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains

Bethany Brookshire
Amy Maxmen, PhDAmy Maxmen, PhD

Why 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

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Political Writings, Theodore Dreiser

Political Writings

Theodore Dreiser
Amy Maxmen, PhDAmy Maxmen, PhD

@jonshaffer @PesteMagazine It's in a collection I'm reading: "Theodore Dreiser: Political Writings"

Hardcover, 2011

$52.00$27.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)