Regional Office of the World Health Organization 'Timing is everything in comedy and in scholarship. One cannot imagine a better timing for this book's publication. The title of the book promises to make a call for health services with a clear social mission; and this it fully delivers. Here is a book that paves the way in a direction using the right political analyses. It tells us that it has been donors who have pushed the patterns of commercialisation of health in poor countries; and that aid policies share a large responsibility for the breakdown of the health systems of many of the poor countries we currently see. It highlights the contradictions of public provision under the guise of commercialised health care looking at two decades of neoliberal policy that has systematically undermined access to quality health care services for a majority of the world population. This, it rightly claims, receives far too little attention in the literature. The book is clear about the need for a policy shift that re-establishes the right to access to quality healthcare. It proposes a health policy based on a political philosophy in an attempt to reconcile professional, cultural and political ethics. It clearly states that health policy is political in the sense that it refers to actions (deeds) meant to challenge the structures of power and social organisation from an ethical perspective. For all these reasons, the People's Health Movement feels the principles of its People's Charter for Health are here represented; our