Yale/Johnson & Johnson Physician Scholars

Suggested Reading

Please find below a number of both non-fiction and historical fiction accounts that pertain to international health and development, as well as literature that are appropriate for particular sites in the Yale/ Johnson and Johnson International Health Program. This is a suggested list that comes largely from the recommendations of those physicians who have traveled extensively in these areas, and is by no means complete. If you have further suggestions for submission to this list, please contact the program coordinator.

Suggested Reading

Alvarez, Julia. In the Time of Butterflies
Didion, Joan. Salvador. (El Salvador)
Duff, Alan. Once Were Warriors. (New Zealand)
Fadiman, Anne. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down.
Godwin, Peter. Mukiwa. (Rhodesia)
Gourevitch, Philip (Editor). We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families.
Perkins, John. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.
Sapolsky, Robert. A Primate's Memoir. (Kenya)
Scroggins, Deborah. Emma's War. (Sudan)

Site - Specific

Brazil: Amado, Jorge. Doña; Flor and Her Two Husbands; Gabriela, Clove, and Cinnamon; Tieta (The Americas). Eritrea: Wrong, Michela. I Didn't Do it For You. (available on loan from program office)Haiti: Farmer, Paul. AIDS and Accusation; Pathologies of Power; Infections and Inequalities.
Kidder, Tracy. Mountains Beyond Mountains.Honduras: Benjamin, Medea. Don’t be Afraid, Gringo: a Honduran Woman Speaks from the Heart. (available on loan from program office)India: Mistry, Rohinton. A Fine Balance. (Bombay/Mumbai)Mexico (Oaxaca): Benites, Sandra. Night of the Radishes.Russia: Kapuscinski, Ryszard. Imperium.South Africa: Coetzee, J. M. Disgrace.
Gordimer, Nadine. The Conservationist; Get a Life; July’s People; Telling Tales.
Krog, Antjie. Country of my Skull.
Lessing, Doris. The Golden Notebook, The Summer Before the Dark.
Malan, Rian. My Traitor’s Heart.
Marmovich, Greg, and Silva, Joao. The Bang Bang Club. (Soweto).
U. S. Reservations:
Alaska: Michener, James. Alaska.