Awakening Hippocrates
Subtitle: a primer on health, poverty, and global service
By: by Edward O'Neil, Jr.
Publisher: American Medical Association
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 502
Subjects: Poverty.; Public health.; Human rights.; Volunteer workers in medical care.; Poverty.; World Health.; International Cooperation.; Health Services Accessibility.; Voluntary Workers.
Description: "A comprehensive overview of the current state of world poverty and health, directed to the health care provider interested in volunteering abroad"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Health, poverty, and structural violence; title: The rise of health in the industrialized world; title: Global repercussions : diffusion, the United Nations, and nongovernmental organizations; title: Development and foreign aid : perceptions and realities of our beneficence, part I, bilateral aid; title: Development and foreign aid : perceptions and realities of our beneficence, part II multilateral aid; title: Forces of disparity I : private financial flows, trade, multinational corporations, and inequality; title: Forces of disparity II : history, racism, governance, and militarism; title: Forces of disparity III : kids, sexism, population, nature, and infectious diseases; title: Lessons from a plague : the history, scope, and politics of HIV/AIDS; title: Ethics, human rights, and religion; title: Thomas Anthony Dooley, MD; title: Father Bill Fryda, MD; title: Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, and Jim Yong Kim, MD, PhD; title: Peter Allen, DMD; title: Thomas S. "doc" Durant, MD; title: The life of Albert Schweitzer, MD; title: Reverence for life : the compelling and timeless ideal of Albert Schweitzer, MD; title: Appendix A, the Universal declaration of human rights; title: Appendix B. UN millennium development goals.