Dying for growth
Subtitle: global inequality and the health of the poor
By: edited by Jim Yong Kim ... [et al.].
Contributors: Kim, Jim Yong.
Publisher: Common Courage Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Monroe, Me
Language: eng
Number of pages: 584
Subjects: Poor -- Medical care -- Case studies; Poor -- Health and hygiene -- Case studies; Poor -- Medical care -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries -- Case studies; Poor -- Developing countries -- Health aspects -- Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 511-566) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : what is growing? Who is dying? / Joyce V. Millen ... [et al.]; title: Getting a grip on the global economy / John Gershman and Alec Irwin; title: Terms reconsidered : decoding development discourse / Aaron Shalow and Alec Irwin; title: Hypocrisies of development and the health of the Haitian poor / Paul Farmer and Didi Bertrand; title: Theoretical therapies, remote remedies : SAPs and the political ecology of poverty and health in Africa / Brooke G. Schoepf ... [et al.]; title: Sickness amidst recovery : public debt and private suffering in Peru / Jim Yong Kim ... [et al.]; title: Neoliberal economic policy, "State desertion," and the Russian health crisis / Mark G. Field ... [et al.]; title: Dying for growth, part I : transnational corporations and the health of the poor / Joyce V. Millen and Timothy H. Holtz; title: Dying for growth, part II : the political influence of national and transnational corporations / Joyce V. Millen ... [et al.]; title: Tragedy without end : the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster / Timothy H. Holtz; title: Neoliberal trade and investment and the health of Maquiladora workers on the U.S.- Mexico border / Joel Brenner ... [et al.]; title: The drug war in perspective / Arnold Chien ... [et al.]; title: "The threat of a good example" : health and revolution in Cuba / Aviva Chomsky; title: The smoke and mirrors of health reform in El Salvador : community health NGOs and the not-so-neoliberal state / Sandy Smith-Nonini; title: Conclusion : pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will / Joyce V. Millen... [et al]; title: Pragmatic solidarity / Heena Patel ... [et al].