Reimagining global health : an introduction / Paul Farmer ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Farmer, Paul, 1959-2022.

Series:

California series in public anthropology ; 26.

California series in public anthropology ; v. 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World health.

Health services accessibility.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2013.

Summary:

"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"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Frontmatter

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520271999

0520271998

9780520954632

0520954637

OCLC:

855505495