Reimagining Global Health An Introduction

Name: Reimagining Global Health An Introduction
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ISBN: 9780520271999

ISBN-10: 0520271998

ISBN-13: 9780520271999

Edition: 2013

Authors: Paul Farmer, Arthur Kleinman, Jim Kim, Matthew Basilico

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Bringing together the experience, perspective and expertise of Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Arthur Kleinman,Reimagining Global Healthprovides an original, compelling introduction to the field of global health. Drawn from a Harvard course developed by their student Matthew Basilico, this work provides an accessible and engaging framework for the study of global health. Insisting on an approach that is historically deep and geographically broad, the authors underline the importance of a transdisciplinary approach, and offer a highly readable distillation of several historical and ethnographic perspectives of contemporary global health problems.The case studies presented…

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List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/7/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 504
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 2.024
Language: English

Arthur Kleinmanis Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard University;Yunxiang Yanis a Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles;Jing Junis a Professor at Tsinghua University (Beijing);Sing Leeis a Professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong;Everett Zhangis a Professor at Princeton University;Pan Tianshuis a Professor at Fudan University (Shanghai);Wu FeiandGuo Jinhuaare Professors at Peking University (Beijing).



List of Illustrations and Tables


Preface




Introduction: A Biosocial Approach to Global Health




Unpacking Global Health: Theory and Critique




Colonial Medicine and Its Legacies




Health for All? Competing Theories and Geopolitics




Redefining the Possible: The Global AIDS Response




Building an Effective Rural Health Delivery Model in Haiti and Rwanda




Scaling Up Effective Delivery Models Worldwide




The Unique Challenges of Mental Health and MDRTB: Critical Perspectives on Metrics of Disease




Values and Global Health




Taking Stock of Foreign Aid




Global Health Priorities for the Early Twenty-First Century




A Movement for Global Health Equity? A Closing Reflection



Appendix: Declaration of Alma-Ata


Notes


List of Contributors


Acknowledgments


Index