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ⓘ About Matthew Kelly
Known for his life changing work, the Australian author and speaker Matthew Kelly is world famous with readers from all over citing his work. Creating books that really deliver on multiple levels, he’s largely recognized for his non-fiction writing that helps and informs his readers. Infusing Catholicism with self-help, his books are open and accessible to anyone that needs them, as they easy to pick up and understand. With a strain of religion and spirituality running throughout all his work, Kelly’s writing doesn’t close itself in, making it open to everyone. Reaching the top of the bestseller lists on numerous occasion, he’s managed to create a name for himself quite unlike any other.
All Book Series by Matthew Kelly
Slowing Down to the Speed of Joy: The Simple Art of Taking Back Your Life
Book 45 of 46 · published 2024
History and Health Policy in the United States: Putting the Past Back In
Series opener · book 1 of 63 · published 2006 Anthology · Rosemary A. Stevens,Charles E. Rosenberg,Lawton R. Burns
The Truth About Health Care: Why Reform is Not Working in America
Book 2 of 63 · published 2006 Anthology · David Mechanic
Fighting For Our Lives: New York's AIDS Community and the Politics of Disease
Book 3 of 63 · published 2006 Anthology · Susan M. Chambré
The Dilemma of Federal Mental Health Policy: Radical Reform or Incremental Change?
Book 4 of 63 · published 2006 Anthology · Gerald N. Grob,Howard Goldman
Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion: A History of Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles
Book 5 of 63 · published 2007 Anthology · Emily Abel
Saving Sickly Children: The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life, 1909-1970
Book 6 of 63 · published 2008 Anthology · Cynthia A. Connolly
Doctors Serving People: Restoring Humanism to Medicine through Student Community Service
Book 7 of 63 · published 2008 Anthology · Joseph O'Donnell,Edward J. Eckenfels,Joseph F. O'Donnell
Under the Radar: Cancer and the Cold War
Book 8 of 63 · published 2008 Anthology · Ellen Leopold
Medical Research for Hire: The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials
Book 9 of 63 · published 2008 Anthology · Jill A. Fisher
War and Disease: Biomedical Research on Malaria in the Twentieth Century
Book 10 of 63 · published 2009 Anthology · Leo B. Slater
Making the American Mouth: Dentists and Public Health in the Twentieth Century
Book 11 of 63 · published 2009 Anthology · Alyssa Picard
From Pink to Green: Disease Prevention and the Environmental Breast Cancer Movement
Book 12 of 63 · published 2009 Anthology · Barbara L. Ley
Practice Under Pressure: Primary Care Physicians and Their Medicine in the Twenty-first Century
Book 13 of 63 · published 2009 Anthology · Timothy Hoff
Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence: Conundrums in Modern American Medicine
Book 14 of 63 · published 2009 Anthology · Gerald N. Grob
Health Issues in Latino Males: A Social and Structural Approach
Book 15 of 63 · published 2010 Anthology · Hortensia Amaro,George Ayala,Professor David R. Williams,Professor Miguel Muñoz-Laboy,Professor Marilyn Aguirre-Molina,Luisa N. Borrell,Professor William Vega,Sandra Arévalo,RubTn Rumbaut,Clara Rodríguez,Olivia Carter-Pokras,Alexander Fischer,Gabriela Betancourt,M. Biggs,Claire Brindis,John Santelli,Lauren Ralph,Andres Gil,Valentine Villa,Nancy Harada,Anh-Luu Huynh-Hohnbaum,Laia BTcares,Sandra Echeverria,Ana Diez-Roux,Antonio Polo,Margarita Alegrfa,Russell Homan,Patricia Homan,Olveen Carrasquillo,Cynthia Alford,David Espino,Mariano Kanamori
American Catholic Hospitals: A Century of Changing Markets and Missions
Book 16 of 63 · published 2011 Anthology · BARBRA MANN WALL
An Alternative History of Hyperactivity: Food Additives and the Feingold Diet
Book 17 of 63 · published 2011 Anthology · Matthew Smith
Patients as Policy Actors
Book 18 of 63 · published 2011 Anthology · Nancy Tomes,Beatrix Hoffman,Rachel Grob,Mark Schlesinger
Testing Baby: The Transformation of Newborn Screening, Parenting, and Policymaking
Book 19 of 63 · published 2011 Anthology · Rachel Grob
The Morning After: A History of Emergency Contraception in the United States
Book 20 of 63 · published 2011 Anthology · Heather Munro Prescott
The Health Care Safety Net in a Post-Reform World
Book 21 of 63 · published 2012 Anthology · Mark A. Hall,Sara Rosenbaum
Beyond Health, Beyond Choice: Breastfeeding Constraints and Realities
Book 22 of 63 · published 2012 Anthology · Bernice L. Hausman,Paige Hall Smith,Miriam Labbok
The Vulnerable Empowered Woman: Feminism, Postfeminism, and Women's Health
Book 23 of 63 · published 2012 Anthology · Tasha N. Dubriwny
In the Public Interest: Medical Licensing and the Disciplinary Process
Book 24 of 63 · published 2012 Anthology · Ruth Horowitz
The Door of Last Resort: Memoirs of a Nurse Practitioner
Book 25 of 63 · published 2013 Anthology · Professor Frances Ward
Structural Intimacies: Sexual Stories in the Black AIDS Epidemic
Book 26 of 63 · published 2013 Anthology · Sonja Mackenzie
Comrades in Health: U.S. Health Internationalists, Abroad and at Home
Book 27 of 63 · published 2013 Anthology · Michael Terry,Bernard Lown,Theodore M. Brown,Vicente Navarro,Professor Anne-Emanuelle Birn,Professor Susan Gross Solomon,Walter J. Lear,Jane Pacht Brickman,Professor H. Jack Geiger,Professor Victor W. Sidel,Professor Howard Waitzkin,Professor Paula Braveman,Professor Stephen Gloyd,Professor James Pfeiffer,Professor Wendy Johnson,Professor Mary Travis Bassett,Laura Turiano,Professor Alicia Ely Yamin,Professor Seiji Yamada,Professor Lanny Smith,Professor Jennifer Kasper,Professor Timothy Holtz,Professor Razel Remen,Brea Bondi-Boyd
Broadcasting Birth Control: Mass Media and Family Planning
Book 28 of 63 · published 2013 Anthology · Manon Parry
Classrooms and Clinics: Urban Schools and the Protection and Promotion of Child Health, 1870-1930
Book 29 of 63 · published 2013 Anthology · Richard A. Meckel
The Business of Private Medical Practice: Doctors, Specialization, and Urban Change in Philadelphia, 1900-1940
Book 30 of 63 · published 2013 Anthology · James A. Schafer
Tainted Earth: Smelters, Public Health, and the Environment
Book 31 of 63 · published 2014 Anthology · Marianne Sullivan
Managing Madness in the Community: The Challenge of Contemporary Mental Health Care
Book 32 of 63 · published 2014 Anthology · Kerry Michael Dobransky
Smoking Privileges: Psychiatry, the Mentally Ill, and the Tobacco Industry in America
Book 33 of 63 · published 2015 Anthology · Laura D. Hirshbein
Privacy and the Past: Research, Law, Archives, Ethics
Book 34 of 63 · published 2016 Anthology · Susan C. Lawrence
Transplanting Care: Shifting Commitments in Health and Care in the United States
Book 35 of 63 · published 2016 Anthology · Laura L. Heinemann
Selling Science: Polio and the Promise of Gamma Globulin
Book 36 of 63 · published 2016 Anthology · Stephen E. Mawdsley
Communities of Health Care Justice
Book 37 of 63 · published 2016 Anthology · Charlene Galarneau
Nursing with a Message: Public Health Demonstration Projects in New York City
Book 38 of 63 · published 2017 Anthology · Patricia D'Antonio
Toxic Exposures: Mustard Gas and the Health Consequences of World War II in the United States
Book 39 of 63 · published 2017 Anthology · Susan L. Smith
Frederick Novy and the Development of Bacteriology in Medicine
Book 40 of 63 · published 2017 Anthology · Powel Harold Kazanjian
Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in the United States
Book 41 of 63 · published 2017 Anthology · Andrew R. Ruis
Lady Lushes: Gender, Alcoholism, and Medicine in Modern America
Book 42 of 63 · published 2017 Anthology · Michelle L. McClellan
Rest Uneasy: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in Twentieth-Century America
Book 43 of 63 · published 2018 Anthology · Brittany Cowgill
Prelude to Hospice: Florence Wald, Dying People, and their Families
Book 44 of 63 · published 2018 Anthology · Emily K. Abel
When the Air Became Important: A Social History of the New England and Lancashire Textile Industries
Book 45 of 63 · published 2019 Anthology · Janet Greenlees
Medicine over Mind: Mental Health Practice in the Biomedical Era
Book 46 of 63 · published 2019 Anthology · Dena T. Smith
Healthcare and Human Dignity: Law Matters
Book 47 of 63 · published 2019 Anthology · Frank M. McClellan
Pyrrhic Progress: The History of Antibiotics in Anglo-American Food Production
Book 48 of 63 · published 2020 Anthology · Claas Kirchhelle
Talking Therapy: Knowledge and Power in American Psychiatric Nursing
Book 49 of 63 · published 2020 Anthology · Kylie M. Smith
The Love Surgeon: A Story of Trust, Harm, and the Limits of Medical Regulation
Book 50 of 63 · published 2020 Anthology · Sarah B. Rodriguez
Exhibiting Health: Public Health Displays in the Progressive Era
Book 51 of 63 · published 2020 Anthology · Jennifer Lisa Koslow
False Dawn: The Rise and Decline of Public Health Nursing
Book 52 of 63 · published 2021 Anthology · Susan M. Reverby,Karen Buhler-Wilkerson,Julie A. Fairman,Sandra B. Lewenson
An Organ of Murder: Crime, Violence, and Phrenology in Nineteenth-Century America
Book 53 of 63 · published 2021 Anthology · Courtney E Thompson
Nursing the Nation: Building the Nurse Labor Force
Book 54 of 63 · published 2021 Anthology · Jean C. Whelan
Bodies Unbound: Gender-Specific Cancer and Biolegitimacy
Book 55 of 63 · published 2021 Anthology · Piper Sledge
From Residency to Retirement: Physicians' Careers over a Professional Lifetime
Book 56 of 63 · published 2021 Anthology · Terry Mizrahi
Pink and Blue: Gender, Culture, and the Health of Children
Book 57 of 63 · published 2021 Anthology · Elena C. Conis,Sandra Eder,Aimee Medeiros
Carrying On: Another School of Thought on Pregnancy and Health
Book 58 of 63 · published 2022 Anthology · Brittany Clair
Importing Care, Faithful Service: Filipino and Indian American Nurses at a Veterans Hospital
Book 59 of 63 · published 2022 Anthology · Stephen M. Cherry
Abortion Care as Moral Work: Ethical Considerations of Maternal and Fetal Bodies
Book 60 of 63 · published 2022 Anthology · Thomas Cunningham,Johanna Schoen,Curtis Boyd,Glenna Boyd,Renee Chelian,Sarah Dubow,Marc Heller,Amy Hagstrom Miller,Colin Partridge,Shelley Sella,Shannon Withycombe
Mammography Wars: Analyzing Attention in Cultural and Medical Disputes
Book 61 of 63 · published 2023 Anthology · Asia Friedman
Bishops and Bodies: Reproductive Care in American Catholic Hospitals
Book 62 of 63 · published 2023 Anthology · Lori Freedman,Debra Stulberg
The Sounds of Furious Living: Everyday Unorthodoxies in an Era of AIDS
Latest in the series · book 63 of 63 · published 2023
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Matthew Kelly?
Known for his life changing work, the Australian author and speaker Matthew Kelly is world famous with readers from all over citing his work. Creating books that really deliver on multiple levels, he's largely recognized for his non-fiction writing that helps and informs his readers. Infusing Catholicism with self-help, his books are open and accessible to anyone that needs them, as they easy to pick up and understand.
Which Matthew Kelly series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Critical Issues in Health and Medicine series, the earliest of Matthew Kelly's multi-book series: it opens with History and Health Policy in the United States: Putting the Past Back In (2006) and runs to 63 books across 2006–2023, ending with The Sounds of Furious Living: Everyday Unorthodoxies in an Era of AIDS (2023).
How many books has Matthew Kelly written?
Matthew Kelly has 113 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1995 and 2025. 63 of them belong to 1 named series — the largest being the Critical Issues in Health and Medicine series with 63 books — and 50 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Matthew Kelly's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Matthew Kelly's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Critical Issues in Health and Medicine (2006–2023, 63 books).
How are Matthew Kelly's books organised into series?
This guide splits Matthew Kelly's 113 books into 1 named series and 50 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine (63 books, 2006–2023).