For #ScholarStrike I'm going to collect some of my favorite resources on Settler-Colonialism & Healthcare - listed in no particular order.

Some are theory, some are histories, all of them I believe are relevant to understanding how political-economy dictates health #epitwitter

One of the earliest epidemiological surveys on the impact of industrialization on human health, the race, class & gendered burden of disease was in Frederick Engels' "The Conditions of the Working Class in England"
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/condition-working-class-england.pdf
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The book is interesting because it's clearly a political treatise - but he's not a Marxist yet, just a rich kid wandering around a rapidly changing country observing how the changing relations of production *materially* impacted the burden of disease. It was something observable.

@haw95's book "Medical Apartheid" does an incredible job going through the history of the Medical Profession's complicity with & development alongside Settler-Colonialism. An incredibly important book for understanding how medical institutions naturalize race. #ScholarStrike

@alondra wrote "Body and Soul" which is an incredible overview of the Black Panther Party's outlook on health, their struggle against health discrimination and the practical strategies they used to build "social health" into the framework of People's Power. #ScholarStrike

@JFernandez693's book "The Young Lords: A Radical History" similarly goes over their hospital actions & also emphasizes their role in the environmental justice movement. Very relevant history that's been mostly buried. #ScholarStrike

I don't think it's possible to make a thread on sources I've found useful as an epidemiologist without mentioning Nancy Krieger who's written about 40 million articles all of which are super important for anyone interested in learning methods in social epidemiology #ScholarStrike

It's worth noting as well, that book is just one of many things I'd recommend from her. Particularly, her articles "Epidemiology & the Web of Causation", "Workers are People Too: Societal Aspects of Occupational Health Disparities"

@KimTallBear's book on the complexities of the emerging "race science" industry & its social consequences seems more relevant than ever in academic spaces. An incredibly important + intentionally decolonial book that every researcher needs to read.

Richard Levins & Richard Lewontin both did excellent work in untangling the contradiction between the political economy of knowledge production & the science that's produced.

Lots of valuable insights here that aren't just limited to biology or "systems thinking". #ScholarStrike

Always provocative, Levins wrote an article for @monthly_review in 2000 asking "Is Capitalism a Disease?" that's worth revisiting in our current context, even with its imperfections.
https://monthlyreview.org/2000/09/01/is-capitalism-a-disease/
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David N. Gibb's book "Humanitarian Intervention and the Destruction of Yugoslavia" digs into the messy history of Public Health & "Humanitarian" aid being weaponized for imperial interests. Raises a lot of uncomfortable questions.
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Beyond Survival is an incredible book for keeping communities accountable & honest. It's incredibly grounded, offers real world examples, and is written accessibly.

Vicente Navarro has written extensively about the political economy of health, Neoliberalism's impact on the global burden of disease, Imperialism & the political economy of "global health governance". #ScholarStrike

This book by Kamel Shadpour & Pejman Shadpour is a good case study of doctors from Iran & Mississippi collaborating internationally on low-cost, preventative rural treatment centers. Great example of how an internationalist perspective can impact access to care. #ScholarStrike

Howard Waitzkin has written a lot about the political-economy of the US Healthcare system, his book "Health Care Under the Knife" is definitely worth checking out for people looking to move beyond "access/lack of access" conversations

@FLP_books also published an excellent historical survey of the US Healthcare system in 1975, written by a collective radical Autoworkers. I think it does an incredible job describing how healthcare is dictated by our relations of production #ScholarStrike

This publication from the Socialist Caucus of the APHA on Control Units is an incredible document from the struggle against prisons that's definitely worth checking out given the upsurge of interest in abolitionism
https://www.freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC510_scans/Control_Units_AFSC/510.socialist.caucus.control.unit.violations.1988.pdf