Health & Healthcare 

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Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health by Thomas Insel, MD

Dr. Insel offers a bold, expert, and actionable map for the re-invention of America’s broken mental health care system. There are approaches that work, both in the U.S. and globally. Mental illnesses are medical problems, but he discovers that the cures for the crisis are not just medical, but social too. 

The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health: Navigate an Unequal System, Learn Tools for Emotional Wellness, and Get the Help You Deserve by Rheeda Walker, PhD

A comprehensive road map with important information on the mental health crisis in the Black community, such as how to combat stigma, spot potential mental illness, practice emotional wellness, and get the best care possible in an unequal system. 

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Well: What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About Health by Sandro Galea

Americans spend more money on health than people anywhere else in the world. And what do they get for it? Americans today live shorter, less healthy lives than citizens of other rich countries. This is a radical examination of the subtle and not-so-subtle factors that determine who gets to be healthy in America. Galea shows how the country’s failing health is a product of history and how refocusing on our national health can usher enlightenment across life and politics.

The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity, and Improve Everyone's Well-being by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Prickett

A groundbreaking and empirical investigation into the powerful, often devastating, psychological effects caused by inequality. A wealth of data supports the analysis that a low social status leads to elevated rates of stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction. Wilkinson and Pickett demonstrate how societies rooted in fundamental equalities, sharing, and reciprocity generate higher levels of well-being for all.

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The Urge: Our History of Addiction by Carl Erik Fisher

An authoritative, illuminating, and deeply humane history of addiction, a phenomenon that remains misunderstood despite having touched countless lives. With uncommon empathy and erudition, Fisher traces the history of a struggle we cannot hope to address effectively until we can better understand it. Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and The Boston Globe. 

"Mental health is such an important thing to talk about. It's the same as being physically sick. And when you keep all those things inside, when you bottle them up, it makes you ill." -Cara Delevingne

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