Links

Links to our partners:

 

William S. Richardson School of Law (University of Hawai'i)

 

Kokua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services

 

HealthyPacific.net

Information and resources for the health of Pacific Islanders and allies in Hawai'i and beyond.  A great resource for articles, videos and advocacy work in the Micronesian community.

 

National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership

 

Books we recommend (and love!):

 

David Shipler, The Working Poor: Invisible in America (Vintage, 2005)

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Anne Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012)

 

Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Random House, 2009)

 

Walter Mosley, The Right Mistake: The Further Philosophical Investigations of Socrates Fortlow, a novel  (Basic Civitas Books, 2009)

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Videos we recommend:

 

"Health Disparities, Health Inequities, Health Apartheid?" a presentation by Anthony Iton, MD, JD, MPH at the William S. Richardson School of Law on August 24, 2009

(Mr. Iton's speech is from minutes 8:30 to 1:21).  [Use password: uhlawschool]

Link here:  http://vimeo.com/57478844

 

"Out in the Rural: A Health Center in Mississippi" (Produced & Directed by Judy Schader Rogers, 1970).  

Link here:  http://vimeo.com/6659667