My shortlist of books that I’d call “important.” I’m also on
Goodreads
.
MedAnth etc.
The Social Transformation of American Medicine
(
Paul Starr
)
Hidden Valley Road
(
Robert Kolker
)
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
(
Anne Fadiman
)
Deep South
(
Davis
,
Gardner, and Gardner
)
Caste
(
Isabel Wilkerson
)
Being Heumann
(
Judy Heumann
)
When Languages Die
(
K. David Harrison
)
Abraham’s Children
(
Jon Entine
)
Computers etc.
New Dark Age
(
James Bridle
)
Dawn of the New Everything
(
Jaron Lanier
)
Books by the
Dark Forest Collective
:
The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet
The Post-Individual
The Technological Society
(
Jacques Ellul
)
Bad Blood
(
John Carreyrou
)
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
(
Zuboff
)
The Human Use of Human Beings
(
Wiener
)
VC: An American History
(
Tom Nicholas
)