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Suggested Books
Postpartum Mental Health
If you or someone you love is among the one in seven women stricken by PPD, you know how hard it is to get real help. This proven self-help program, which can be used alone or with a support group or therapist, will help you monitor each phase of illness, recognize when you need professional help, cope with daily life, and recover with new strength and confidence.
Amazon Price: $12.99
Men are not well-represented when it comes to parental mental health. Thus, the authors of this book decided to write a book that includes men in the discussion about early parenthood. Factoring in Fathers is an amazing book that guides new dads in their roles as fathers and partners. Jane I. Honikman and Daniel B. Singley includes the newest research on men’s mental health, relationship satisfaction, and parenting.
Amazon Price: $12.95
“I thought I was the only one...”
After she gave birth to a bouncing baby girl, Sandra Poulin felt like crying. And she did—for months. But they weren’t happy tears—Sandra felt worthless, could hardly sleep, and had thoughts of death. Like too many mothers around the world, Sandra had no idea that this common but baffling condition had a name: Postpartum Depression...
Amazon Price: $14.55
An award-winning journalist and Instagram star Leslie Anne Bruce writes an book that offers encouragement, inspiration, and community for new mothers. She not only acknowledges the new found difficulties of being a new mom but also offers self-empowerment lessons new mothers need to get in order to emerge stronger than ever. Bruce goes deep into her own experiences of being a mom, the challenges she faced, and how she overcame those hurdles.
Amazon Price: $15.29
Children's Mental Health
This gorgeous, lyrical ode to loving who you are, respecting others, and being kind to one another comes from Empire actor and activist Grace Byers and talented newcomer artist Keturah A. Bobo.
Amazon Price: $11.39
Wishing Wellness is a workbook for the child whose mother or father is suffering from a serious mental illness. Packed with information, interactive questions, and fun activities, it's an ideal tool for children and their therapists or other professional mental health workers.
Amazon Price: $9.99
Meet Ruby--a happy, curious, imaginative girl. But one day, she finds something unexpected: A Worry. It's not such a big Worry, at first. But every day, it grows a little bigger . . . And a little bigger . . . Until eventually, the Worry is ENORMOUS and is all she can think about. But when Ruby befriends a young boy, she discovers that everyone has worries, and not only that, there's a great way to get rid of them too.
Amazon Price: $12.85
Some mornings, Annie's mother's smiles are as bright as sunshine as she makes pancakes for breakfast and helps Annie get ready for school. But other days, her mother doesn't smile at all and gets very angry. Those days Annie has to be a big girl and make her own breakfast, and even put herself to bed at night. But Annie's grandma helps her remember what to do when her mommy isn't well, and her silly friends are there to cheer her up. And no matter what, Annie knows that even when Mommy is angry on the outside, on the inside she never stops loving her.
Amazon Price: $10.58
The children's issues picture book Why Is Dad So Mad? is a story for children in military families whose father battles with combat-related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). After a decade of fighting wars on two fronts, tens of thousands of service members are coming home having trouble adjusting to civilian life; this includes struggling as parents.
Amazon Price: $10.00
Social Injustices in Healthcare
The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimental cesarean sections, ovariotomies, and obstetric fistula repairs primarily on poor and powerless women. Medical Bondage breaks new ground by exploring how and why physicians denied these women their full humanity yet valued them as “medical super bodies” highly suited for medical experimentation.
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present is a 2007 book by Harriet A. Washington. It is a history of medical experimentation on African Americans.
Amazon Price: $12.08
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures is a 1997 book by Anne Fadiman that chronicles the struggles of a Hmong refugee family
Amazon Price: $6.68
Though the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscitate race as a biological category written in our genes.
Amazon Price: $11.99