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Discrimination in medical care:

Farmer, Paul. Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005. In the SCSU Miller Center Library, click here for more information: book location

Nelson, Alondra. Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. In the SCSU Miller Center Library, click here for more information: book location

Patel, Kant. Health Care in America: Separate and Unequal. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2008. In the SCSU Miller Center Library, click here for more information: book location

Wang, Lu-in. Discrimination by Default: How Racism Becomes Routine. New York: New York University Press, 2006. In the SCSU Miller Center Library, click here for more information: book location

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Human experimentation in medicine:

Epstein, Steven. Inclusion: the Politics of Difference In Medical Research. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. In the SCSU Miller Center Library, click here for more information: book location

Nadav, Daniel S. Medicine And Nazism. Jerusalem: Hebrew University Magna Press, 2009. In the SCSU Miller Center Library, click here for more information: book location

Reverby, Susan. Examining Tuskegee: the Infamous Syphilis Study And Its Legacy. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. In the SCSU Miller Center Library, click here for more information: book location

Washington, Harriet A. Medical Apartheid: the Dark History of Medical Experimentation On Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present. New York, NY: Harlem Moon, 2006. In the SCSU Miller Center Library, click here for more information: book location

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Medical ethics:

Brody, Howard. The Future of Bioethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. In the SCSU Miller Center Library, click here for more information: book location

Mahowald, Mary Briody. Bioethics And Women: Across the Life Span. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. . In the SCSU Miller Center Library, click here for more information: book location

Wertheimer, Alan. Rethinking the Ethics of Clinical Research: Widening the Lens. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2011. In the SCSU Miller Center Library, click here for more information: book location

Wicclair, Mark R. Conscientious Objection In Health Care: an Ethical Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. In the SCSU Miller Center Library, click here for more information: book location

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Science writing:

Brake, Mark, and Emma Weitkamp. Introducing Science Communication: a Practical Guide. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. In the SCSU Miller Center Library, click here for more information: book location

Dawkins, Richard. The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. In the SCSU Miller Center Library, click here for more information: book location

Hancock, Elise. Ideas Into Words: Mastering the Craft of Science Writing. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. In the SCSU Miller Center Library, click here for more information: book location

Lindsay, D. R. Scientific Writing: Thinking In Words. Collingwood, Vic.: CSIRO Publishing, 2011. In the SCSU Miller Center Library, click here for more information: book location

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