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Reimagining Global Health
An Introduction
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Reimagining Global Health
An Introduction
About this book
Bringing together the experience, perspective and expertise of Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Arthur Kleinman, Reimagining Global Health provides 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 throughout Reimagining Global Health bring together ethnographic, theoretical, and historical perspectives into a wholly new and exciting investigation of global health. The interdisciplinary approach outlined in this text should prove useful not only in schools of public health, nursing, and medicine, but also in undergraduate and graduate classes in anthropology, sociology, political economy, and history, among others.
The case studies presented throughout Reimagining Global Health bring together ethnographic, theoretical, and historical perspectives into a wholly new and exciting investigation of global health. The interdisciplinary approach outlined in this text should prove useful not only in schools of public health, nursing, and medicine, but also in undergraduate and graduate classes in anthropology, sociology, political economy, and history, among others.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- Preface
- 1. Introduction: A Biosocial Approach to Global Health
- 2. Unpacking Global Health: Theory and Critique
- 3. Colonial Medicine and its Legacies
- 4. Health for All? Competing Theories and Geopolitics
- 5. Redefining the Possible: The Global AIDS Response
- 6. Building an Effective Rural Health Delivery Model in Haiti and Rwanda
- 7. Scaling up Effective Delivery Models Worldwide
- 8. The Unique Challenges of Mental Health and MDRTB: Critical Perspectives on Metrics of Disease
- 9. Values and Global Health
- 10. Taking Stock of Foreign Aid
- 11. Global Health Priorities for the Early Twenty-First Century
- 12. A Movement for Global Health Equity? A Closing Reflection
- Appendix: Declaration of Alma-Ata
- Notes
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Index