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Greetings,
I want to let you know about a new book that I helped edit that is just
out from South End Press. It has been a very exciting project - and one
that comes at a critical time in this nation's history. I hope that the
book may be a useful resource for any courses you are involved in that
discuss the effects of globalization and various global trends on health.
Information about the book is below. If you are interested in ordering a
review copy, you can contact our editor Jill Petty at South End Press.
Her email is <[log in to unmask]> and the phone there is
617-547-4002.
I hope you are well and hope to see you sometime soon.
Mary Anne
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South End Press announces a new book:
Sickness and Wealth: The Corporate Assault on Global Health
Edited by Meredith Fort, Mary Anne Mercer, and Oscar Gish
with preface by Joia Mukherjee
Early comments of reviewers:
A timely, radical, and accessible tool for understanding the corporate
attack on health care as a right. An exceptional mix of activist and
scholarly voices makes Sickness and Wealth stand apart. This book is
indispensible to those interested in health and social Justice.
- Sarah Shannon, Executive Director, Hesperian Foundation
The essays in this volume demonstrate in so many ways how the
achievement of health for all is not just a matter of providing more
clinics and more medicine. They show that ending human rights
violations is central to that struggle.
- Leonard S. Rubenstein, Physcians for Human Rights
The reading classes are learning what the world's bottom billion have
long been forced to know: that the global economic and social
arrangements are increasingly inegalitarian and are bad for our health.
- Paul Farmer, Founding Director, Partners in Health
This exciting book drives home connections on local and global levels,
making it abundantly clear that perverse incentives should be elminated
and new financial resources created to start - and sustain - equitable
development and health for all.
- Paul R. Epstein, Center for Health and the Global Environment
About the book:
How do policies that support corporate-centered globalization impact
people's health around the world?
In this pathbreaking collection, international activists and scholars
reveal how policies implemented by the World Bank, the World Trade
Organization, and other first world interests limit access to health care
and sentence millions to disease and premature death. Essayists provide a
historical context for understanding the complex relationship between
health, inequality, politics, and globalization. They also show how the
corporate health model is being exported to poor countries, illuminating
the tangible and often devastating consequences of privatization and
reduced access to vital human services.
In addition to various contributions from the editors, other chapter
authors include:
Stephen Bezruchka, describing the pivotal effects of inequality on
health;
Evelyne Hong, exploring the role of international agencies and
corporations in health care;
Steve Gloyd on the effects of structural adjustment programs on health;
Juan Carlos Verdugo with a case study of how 'health sector reform' has
devastated the health care system in Guatemala;
Celia Iriart, Howard Watzkin and Emerson Merhy on the expansion of the
neoliberal health model to Latin America;
Ellen Shaffer and Joseph Brenner describing the direct and indirect
effects of trade agreements on health;
Seiji Yamada, demonstrating how militarism and war produce disease;
Vandana Shiva, exposing the effects of industrial agriculture on poor
people's health;
Patrick Bond, documenting the political roots of a choleral outbreak in
South Africa;
Timothy Holz and Patrick Kachur describing the re-globalization of malaria
as a critical public health problem in Africa and Asia;
Paul Davis with an activist's story of the global battle against AIDS;
Alejandro Ceron and Abhijit Das outlining past and current efforts of
activists to affect the future shape of globalization
To order, visit:
http://www.southendpress.org/books/sickness.shtml
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