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In this powerful and accessible collection of new essays, international scholars and activists examine how official and corporate actors of globalization-including multinationals, the IMF and World Bank, the World Trade Organization, and "first world" governments-have enacted policies that limit medical access and promote disease and death for many in the poor world. The contributors to Sickness and Wealth provide a history of health and "development" strategies; reveal the grim health consequences of these policies throughout the world; and highlight the work of activists and organizations currently working for improved global health.
Edited by affiliates of Health Alliance International, which is based at the University of Washington in Seattle, Sickness and Wealth features lucid explanations on this pressing topic, as well as instructive graphics and strong photography.
Sickness and Wealth provides a history and context for health and development strategies; shows how profit-driven "development" policies are being exported to countries throughout the world; and reveals the actual health consequences of profit-driven policies, and highlights the work of several social movements currently confronting globalization and working toward improved health.
Authors include Vandana Shiva, revealing the effects of industrial agriculture on poor people’s health; Patrick Bond, exposing the political roots of South Africa’s cholera epidemic; Evelyne Hong, exploring the role of international agencies and corporations in health care; Seiji Yamada, documenting how militarism and war produce disease; and several writers describing how the struggle for people’s health is, itself, becoming globalized.
Contributors include: Stephen Bezruchka, Joseph Brenner, Patrick Bond, Alejandro Ceron, Abhijit Das, Paul Davis, Meredith Fort, Oscar Gish, Steve Gloyd, Tim Holtz, Evelyne Hong, Celia Iriart, Patrick Kachur, Mary Anne Mercer, Emerson Merhy, Ellen Shaffer, Vandana Shiva, Juan Carlos Verdugo, Howard Waitzkin, Seiji Yamada.
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Meredith Fort, co-editor, is Globalization and Health Project Coordinator of Health Alliance International. Mary Anne Mercer, co-editor, is Deputy Director of Health Alliance International Steve Gloyd is Director of Health Alliance International in Seattle, and the Director of the International Health Program at the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine.
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- PublisherSouth End Press
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0896087166
- ISBN 13 9780896087163
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages300
- EditorFort Meredith, Mercer Mary Ann, Gish Oscar, Gloyd Steve
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