Books on Social Class, Education, and Poverty

Betty Wolder Levin and Nina Glick Schiller observed in 1998 that social class had been largely unaddressed in bioethics. Yet education, income, and wealth are obviously affected by racism and structural injustices, and clearly affect health and well-being. Thus, though few of the following resources focus directly on bioethics, they are relevant to bioethical issues.

Baby Markets: Money and the New Politics of Creating Families edited by Michele Bratcher Goodwin, 2010

Education and Equality by Danielle S. Allen, 2016; related 2011 Institute for Advanced Study lecture

Invisible Americans: The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty by Jeff Madrick, 2020

Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare by Dorothy Roberts, 2002

Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education by Danielle S. Allen, 2004

The Tyranny of Merit by Michael Sandel, 2020; related TED Talk by the author and Harvard Magazine review by Spencer Lee Lenfield