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The Resource Sickness and wealth : the corporate assault on global health, edited by Meredith Fort, Mary Anne Mercer, and Oscar Gish

Sickness and wealth : the corporate assault on global health, edited by Meredith Fort, Mary Anne Mercer, and Oscar Gish

Label
Sickness and wealth : the corporate assault on global health
Title
Sickness and wealth
Title remainder
the corporate assault on global health
Statement of responsibility
edited by Meredith Fort, Mary Anne Mercer, and Oscar Gish
Contributor
Subject
Language
eng
Cataloging source
DNLM/DLC
Index
index present
LC call number
RA441.5
LC item number
.S53 2004
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
NLM call number
  • 2004 L-157
  • WA 530.1
NLM item number
S566 2004
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Fort, Meredith P
  • Mercer, Mary Anne
  • Gish, Oscar
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Public health
  • Public health
  • Globalization
  • World health
Label
Sickness and wealth : the corporate assault on global health, edited by Meredith Fort, Mary Anne Mercer, and Oscar Gish
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-221) and index
Contents
Preface: Diagnosing global injustice / Joia Mukherjee -- Introduction: Globalization and health / Meredith Fort -- The lethal divide: how economic inequality affects health / Stephen Bezruchka and Mary Anne Mercer -- The legacy of colonial medicine / Oscar Gish -- The primary health care movement meets the free market / Evelyne Hong -- Sapping the poor: the impact of structural adjustment programs / Steve Gloyd -- The failures of neoliberalism: health sector reform in Guatemala / Juan Carlos Verdugo -- HMOs abroad: managed care in Latin America / Celia Iriart, Howard Waitzkin, and Emerson Merhy -- Trade and health care: corporatizing vital human services / Ellen Shaffer and Joseph Brenner -- Militarism and the social production of disease / Seiji Yamada -- Stolen harvest: the hijacking of the global food supply / Vandana Shiva -- The political roots of South Africa's cholera epidemic / Patrick Bond -- The reglobalization of malaria / Timothy Holtz and S. Patrick Kachur -- The battle against global AIDS / Paul Davis and Meredith Fort -- The struggle for people's health / Alejandro Cerón, Abhijit Das, and Meredith Fort -- Conclusion: Shall we leave it to the experts? / Mary Anne Mercer
Control code
ocm55738867
Dimensions
22 cm.
Edition
1st ed.
Extent
xvi, 237 p.
Isbn
9780896087163
Isbn Type
(pbk. : alk. paper)
Lccn
2004014498
System control number
(Sirsi) i0896087166
Label
Sickness and wealth : the corporate assault on global health, edited by Meredith Fort, Mary Anne Mercer, and Oscar Gish
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-221) and index
Contents
Preface: Diagnosing global injustice / Joia Mukherjee -- Introduction: Globalization and health / Meredith Fort -- The lethal divide: how economic inequality affects health / Stephen Bezruchka and Mary Anne Mercer -- The legacy of colonial medicine / Oscar Gish -- The primary health care movement meets the free market / Evelyne Hong -- Sapping the poor: the impact of structural adjustment programs / Steve Gloyd -- The failures of neoliberalism: health sector reform in Guatemala / Juan Carlos Verdugo -- HMOs abroad: managed care in Latin America / Celia Iriart, Howard Waitzkin, and Emerson Merhy -- Trade and health care: corporatizing vital human services / Ellen Shaffer and Joseph Brenner -- Militarism and the social production of disease / Seiji Yamada -- Stolen harvest: the hijacking of the global food supply / Vandana Shiva -- The political roots of South Africa's cholera epidemic / Patrick Bond -- The reglobalization of malaria / Timothy Holtz and S. Patrick Kachur -- The battle against global AIDS / Paul Davis and Meredith Fort -- The struggle for people's health / Alejandro Cerón, Abhijit Das, and Meredith Fort -- Conclusion: Shall we leave it to the experts? / Mary Anne Mercer
Control code
ocm55738867
Dimensions
22 cm.
Edition
1st ed.
Extent
xvi, 237 p.
Isbn
9780896087163
Isbn Type
(pbk. : alk. paper)
Lccn
2004014498
System control number
(Sirsi) i0896087166

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