Title: Sickness and wealth : the corporate assault on global health /
Authors: Fort, Meredith P.; Mercer, Mary Anne.; Gish, Oscar.
Publisher: South End Press,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Public health Economic aspects Developing countries.; Public health Political aspects Developing countries.; Globalization Health aspects; World health.; Global Health; Developing Countries; Health Policy; Socioeconomic Factors; Global Health.
Contents: The lethal divide: how economic inequality affects health / Stephen Bezruchka and Mary Anne Mercer -- The legacy of colonial medicine / Oscar Gish -- The role of international agencies: a brief overview / Evelyne Hong -- Sapping the poor: structural adjustment programs and health / Steve Gloyd -- How neoliberalism failed: health care reforms in Guatemala / Juan Carlos Verdugo -- Exporting TK: managed care in Latin America / Celia Iriart, Howard Waitzkin, and Emerson Merhy -- Trading down: health care and TK / 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 neoliberal roots of South Africa's cholera epidemic / Patrick Bond -- The re-globalization of malaria / Timothy Holtz and S. Patrick Kachur -- The battle against AIDS and medical apartheid / Paul Davis and Meredith Fort -- Globalizing the struggle for people's health / Alejandro Ceron, Abhijit Das, and Meredith Fort.