We want to thank the authors that participated in our 2022 Authors on the Square in the NMA exhibit hall. The books range from a children’s book Chuckie and Punkin Rule the World to An African American Philosophy of Medicine.
If you missed them in the exhibit hall you still have time to get their books before they are on the NY Times Best Sellers list.
2022 Author’s on the Square
Augustus G. Parker, III, M.D.
Mining Diamonds – A story of family, faith and perseverance in overcoming tragedy. Within each chapter are funny, heartwarming and powerful messages that galvanized this family to become one of only a few with four physicians.
Book can be purchased at www.Alabasterboxmedia.com
Mary A. Flowers, M.D.
Healthcare In America: Looking Back to Move Forward – Uses wisdom from the past to address current healthcare issues and proposes ways we can achieve quality universal healthcare.
Book can be purchased at www.drmaryaflowers.com
Frederick V. Newsome, M.D.
An African American Philosophy of Medicine: Second Edition – Examines race, medical knowledge, and history in the United States. The book further addresses meaning and purpose in medicine deriving from the author’s life as an African American physician in Harlem, New York and West Africa.
Book can be purchased at www.dorrancebookstore.com
Richard A. Williams, M.D.
Healthcare Disparities At The Crossroads With Healthcare Reform – This book was written in the wake of the sighing into law of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The author will show how the healthcare disparities that adversely affect Black lives could be reduces or eliminated by thorough application of the law.
Blacks in Medicine – Provides a 5,000-year history and retrospective of the Black experience in all phases of medicine and healthcare delivery throughout the world, with a special focus on the healthcare situation for African Americans.
Books can be purchased at www.springer.com
Sydney Ross-Davis, M.D. (Author) Alicia Y. Christy, M.D. (Illustrator)
Chuckie and Punkin Rule the World – Chuckie Charles and Punkin Wunkin are the best of friends, and though they may be opposite in a lot of ways, they will always stick by each other until the end. Rule the world with these two, who without each other wouldn’t know what to do.
Book can be purchased at:
https://www.amazon.com/Chuckie-Punkin-World-Sydney-Ross-Davis-ebook/dp/B09QHHP9X7
Deborah L. Bernal, M.D.
Self-Mothering – Author and physiatrist introduces an active process to help us find heroes, contemporary role models, and personal mentors-people that we can rely on to help us develop and heal as adults.
Book can be purchased at www.Deporahbernal.com
M. Roy Wilson, M.D.
The Plum Tree Blossoms Even In Winter – From a childhood marked by loneliness and want. M. Roy Wilson forged and extraordinary life of accomplishment and acclaim. His accomplishments include the presidencies of four universities, dean of two medical schools, and deputy director of one of the National Institutes of Health’s twenty-seven Centers of Institutes.
Book can be purchased at:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09Z778N6W/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/plum-tree-blossoms-even-winter
