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BIOETHICS 

Principles of Biomedical Ethics by Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress. 

Medical Ethics: Accounts of Groundbreaking Cases by Gregory Pence

Medical Entanglements: Rethinking Feminist Debates about Healthcare by Kristina Gupta

Disability Bioethics: Moral Bodies, Moral Difference by Jackie Leach Scully

Birth

Torres, J. M., and De Vries, R. G. (2009). Birthing Ethics: What Mothers, Families, Childbirth Educators, Nurses, and Physicians Should Know About the Ethics of Childbirth. The Journal of Perinatal Education, 18, 12-21.

Beck, C.T. (2004). Birth Trauma In the Eye of the Beholder. Nursing Research, 53. 28-35.

Bryanton, J., Gagnon, A. J. ,Johnson, C., and Hatem, M. (2008). Predictors of Women’s Perceptions of the Childbirth Experience. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing, 37, 24-34.

Simkin, P. (2015). Doulas: Nurturing and Protecting Women’s Memories of Their Birth Experiences. IJCE, 19. 16-19.

Simpson, K.R., Lydon, A. (2009). Clinical Disagreements During Labor and Birth: How Does Real Life Compare to Best Practice? Maternal Child Nursing, 34. 31-39.

Sperlich, M. , Gabriel, C. , Seng, J. (2017). Where Do You Feel Safest? Demographic Factors and Place of Birth.  Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health, 62. 88-92.

Medical Racism / Anti-Racism

Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad

Do Better: Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from White Supremacy by Rachel Ricketts

Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts

Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper Owens

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, by Harriet A. Washington

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, by Ibram X. Kendi

How to Be Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi

Leadership

Dare to Lead by Brené Brown

The Calling: 3 Fundamental Shifts to Stay True, Get Paid, and Do Good by Rha Goddess

Trauma

It Didn’t Start with You by Mark Wolynn

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.