Books I Recommend

I recommend these books to many people.

Training and education

David Werner and Bill Bower (1982), Helping Health Workers Learn. Berkeley: Hesperian.

Jane Vella (2000), Taking Learning to Task: Creative Strategies for Teaching Adults. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Anne Hope and Sally Timmel, Training For Transformation, books 1-3. Rugby, UK: Practical Action Publishing.

A. August Burns, Ronnie Lovich, Jane Maxwell and Katharine Shapiro (1997). Where Women Have No Doctor, Chapter 2: Solving Health Problems. Berkeley: Hesperian.

I don't recommend these resources much, but they are useful to compare to your first aid curriculum when you're revising it. EMR is a 24-60 hour standardized first aid course:

First aid and common simple emergency care

Buck Tilton (2007), Backcountry First Aid and Extended Care. Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot Press.

Buttaravoli and Stair (1985), Common Simple Emergencies. Hosted by the National Center for Emergency Medicine Informatics.

First Aid, advance chapter from The NEW Where There Is No Doctor. Berkeley: Hesperian.

A.G. Keller, Roger Benham, Zoƫ Williams, and Anne Farbman (2012), Expert review of New Where There Is No Doctor, First Aid Chapter.

Not books, but good naloxone info:

Promoting sexual health and women's health

Melissa Smith, Sarah Shannon and Kathleen Vickery (2015), Health Actions for Women, Chapter 4: Sexuality and Sexual Health and Chapter 5: Preventing Sexually Transmitted Infections. Berkeley: Hesperian.

Coalition for Positive Sexuality (n.d.), "Just Say Yes!" booklet. Washington, DC: Coalition for Positive Sexuality. Order copies here.

A. August Burns, Ronnie Lovich, Jane Maxwell and Katharine Shapiro (1997). Where Women Have No Doctor. Berkeley: Hesperian.

Promoting trauma-informed and social health

Laurie Ahern and Daniel Fisher (n.d.), Personal Assistance in Community Existence: A Recovery Guide. Lawrence, MA: National Empowerment Center.

Christopher Fletcher and Aaron Denham (2008), Moving Toward Healing: A Nunavut Case Study. In Aboriginal Healing in Canada: Studies in Therapeutic Meaning and Practice. Ottawa: Aboriginal Healing Foundation.

Esteban Lance Kelly (2011), Philly Stands Up: Inside the Politics and Poetics of Transformative Justice and Community Accountability in Sexual Assault Situations. Social Justice 37(4):44-57.

Helping Yourself and Helping Others and Overcoming Problems with Alcohol and Drugs. In A. August Burns, Ronnie Lovich, Jane Maxwell and Katharine Shapiro (1997). Where Women Have No Doctor. Berkeley: Hesperian.

Andrea Blanch, Beth Filson, and Darby Penney (2012), Engaging Women In Trauma-Informed Peer Support: A Guidebook. Alexandria, VA: National Center for Trauma-Informed Care.

Promoting occupational and environmental health

Todd Jailer, Miriam Lara-Meloy and Maggie Robbins (2015), Workers' Guide to Health and Safety. Berkeley: Hesperian.

Jeff Conant and Pam Fadem (2012), A Community Guide to Environmental Health. Berkeley: Hesperian.

Politics

Adolph Reed, ed. (1986), Race, Politics, and Culture: Critical Essays on the Radicalism of the 1960s. New York: Greenwood Press.

See my Moving the Enemy syllabus for more.

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