Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction (California Series in Public Anthropology) [Kindle Edition]
Author: Paul Farmer | Language: English | ISBN: B00F3M2VFW | Format: PDF, EPUB
Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction
Direct download links available Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction from mediafire, rapishare, and mirror link Bringing together the experience, perspective and expertise of Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Arthur Kleinman, Reimagining Global Health provides an original, compelling introduction to the field of global health. Drawn from a Harvard course developed by their student Matthew Basilico, this work provides an accessible and engaging framework for the study of global health. Insisting on an approach that is historically deep and geographically broad, the authors underline the importance of a transdisciplinary approach, and offer a highly readable distillation of several historical and ethnographic perspectives of contemporary global health problems.
The case studies presented throughout Reimagining Global Health bring together ethnographic, theoretical, and historical perspectives into a wholly new and exciting investigation of global health. The interdisciplinary approach outlined in this text should prove useful not only in schools of public health, nursing, and medicine, but also in undergraduate and graduate classes in anthropology, sociology, political economy, and history, among others. Books with free ebook downloads available Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction (California Series in Public Anthropology) [Kindle Edition]
Direct download links available Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction from mediafire, rapishare, and mirror link Bringing together the experience, perspective and expertise of Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Arthur Kleinman, Reimagining Global Health provides an original, compelling introduction to the field of global health. Drawn from a Harvard course developed by their student Matthew Basilico, this work provides an accessible and engaging framework for the study of global health. Insisting on an approach that is historically deep and geographically broad, the authors underline the importance of a transdisciplinary approach, and offer a highly readable distillation of several historical and ethnographic perspectives of contemporary global health problems.
The case studies presented throughout Reimagining Global Health bring together ethnographic, theoretical, and historical perspectives into a wholly new and exciting investigation of global health. The interdisciplinary approach outlined in this text should prove useful not only in schools of public health, nursing, and medicine, but also in undergraduate and graduate classes in anthropology, sociology, political economy, and history, among others. Books with free ebook downloads available Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction (California Series in Public Anthropology) [Kindle Edition]
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- Publisher: University of California Press; 1 edition (September 7, 2013)
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- Language: English
- ASIN: B00F3M2VFW
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As a graduating medical student with a strong interest in global surgery, I've taken to reading just about every book on global health that I can get my hands on. Many of these books approach the subject strictly from a medical point of view, occasionally with some cost-effectiveness research thrown in. Then, there are the international development books that generally treat medicine as an abstract concept, something that can be addressed as a whole with a yet-to-be-determined singular solution ("Poor Economics" is an exceptional book that does not fall into this trap).
However, I felt that I needed a different perspective. I wanted to read a text that went deeper into the theory of global health itself. From whence has this seemingly urgent notion come? What is the rationale behind such a science, when clearly there are enough problems in many of our own countries to occupy us for a lifetime? How can we work with the population and not just on the population?
While this book cannot completely answer all of these questions, it attempts to give us an anthropological framework through which to understand the problems and then act on them. In order to do so, the book is made up into roughly three parts. The first part attempts to evaluate the history and underlying philosophy of global health, from its colonial times through the present. In addition to evaluating successful programs (smallpox eradication) and failed programs (malaria eradication), there is particular value in showing how our thoughts of reasonable expectations and limitations have changed.
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