Books for Health Literacy Month

By Coll Rowe | September 27 2024 | Health

For Health Literacy Month in October, we are sharing a list of titles that focus on education about health information and making information about personal and public health easier to understand.

A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER
9780593230695
The riveting, pulse-pounding story of a year in the life of an emergency room doctor trying to steer his patients and colleagues through a crushing pandemic and a violent summer, amidst a healthcare system that seems determined to leave them behind.
$18.99 US
Mar 14, 2023
Paperback
288 Pages
One World

The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives (Pulitzer Prize Finalist)
9780525566229
Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize
$18.00 US
May 09, 2023
Paperback
288 Pages
Anchor

The Power of Radical Self-Love
9781523090990

World-renowned activist and poet Sonya Renee Taylor invites us to reconnect with the radical origins of our minds and bodies and celebrate our collective, enduring strength.

$19.95 US
Feb 09, 2021
Paperback
176 Pages
Berrett-Koehler Publishers

The New Science of a Lost Art
9780735213616

Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head.

$29.00 US
May 26, 2020
Hardcover
304 Pages
Riverhead Books

America in the Time of Covid
9780593315132
Here is an unprecedented, momentous account of Covid-19—its origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain it.
$18.00 US
Jan 31, 2023
Paperback
416 Pages
Vintage

The Surprising Science of Eating for Cognitive Power
9780399574009

In this eye-opening book, Dr. Lisa Mosconi, a neuroscientist and integrative nutritionist, explains why the dietary needs of the brain are different from those of other organs.

$20.00 US
Dec 31, 2019
Paperback
368 Pages
Avery

A Scientist's Quest for Nature's Next Medicines
9781984879134
A leading medical ethnobotanist tells us her story in this uplifting and adventure-filled memoir that illuminates how the path forward for medical discovery may be found in nature’s oldest remedies. 
$18.00 US
Jun 14, 2022
Paperback
384 Pages
Penguin Books

Reimagining Chronic Illness
9780399573309
A landmark exploration of one of the most consequential and mysterious issues of our time: the rise of chronic illness and autoimmune diseases.
$18.00 US
Feb 28, 2023
Paperback
336 Pages
Riverhead Books

Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
9780593083888
By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway to health and healing.
$32.00 US
Sep 13, 2022
Hardcover
576 Pages
Avery