Sickness and wealth
Subtitle: the corporate assault on global health
By: edited by Meredith Fort, Mary Anne Mercer, and Oscar Gish.
Contributors: Fort, Meredith P.; Mercer, Mary Anne.; Gish, Oscar.
Publisher: South End Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Public health -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries.; Public health -- Political aspects -- Developing countries.; Globalization -- Health aspects.; World health.; World Health.; Developing Countries.; Health Policy.; Socioeconomic Factors.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The lethal divide: how economic inequality affects health / Stephen Bezruchka and Mary Anne Mercer; title: The legacy of colonial medicine / Oscar Gish; title: The role of international agencies: a brief overview / Evelyne Hong; title: Sapping the poor: structural adjustment programs and health / Steve Gloyd; title: How neoliberalism failed: health care reforms in Guatemala / Juan Carlos Verdugo; title: Exporting TK: managed care in Latin America / Celia Iriart, Howard Waitzkin, and Emerson Merhy; title: Trading down: health care and TK / Ellen Shaffer and Joseph Brenner; title: Militarism and the social production of disease / Seiji Yamada; title: Stolen harvest: the hijacking of the global food supply / Vandana Shiva; title: The neoliberal roots of South Africa's cholera epidemic / Patrick Bond; title: The re-globalization of malaria / Timothy Holtz and S. Patrick Kachur; title: The battle against AIDS and medical apartheid / Paul Davis and Meredith Fort; title: Globalizing the struggle for people's health / Alejandro Ceron, Abhijit Das, and Meredith Fort.