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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.

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.

Contributors:

Farmer, Paul, 1959-2022

Kleinman, Arthur

Kim, Jim

Basilico, Matthew

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Reimagining Global Health : An Introduction (Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2013 — ISBN 9780520271975)

Related Series:

California series in public anthropology; [volume] 26

Subjects:

World health

Medical care

General Notes:

Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

RA418 .R45 2013eb

ISBNs:

9780520954632 (electronic bk.)
0520954637 (electronic bk.)

OCLC Numbers:

855505495

Other Control Numbers:

630062 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp11060408