Overview
Nowhere is the injustice of the global distribution of income and wealth more palpable than in health. While the world’s affluent spend fortunes on the most trifling treatments, poor people’s lives are ruined and often cut short prematurely by challenges that could easily be overcome at low cost: childbirth, diarrhoea, malnutrition, malaria, HIV/AIDS, measles, pneumonia. Millions are avoidably dying from such causes each year and billions of lives avoidably blighted by these diseases of poverty. Drawing on in-depth empirical research spanning Asia, Latin America, and Africa, this path-breaking collection offers fresh perspectives from critically engaged scholars. Protecting the Health of the Poor presents a call and a vision for unified efforts across geographies, levels and sectors to make the right to health truly universal.
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Author: Abraar Karan ,
Geeta Sodhi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Zed Books Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 13.80cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 21.40cm
Weight: 0.405kg
ISBN: 9781783605521
ISBN 10: 1783605529
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 15 December 2015
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
'Provides essential guidance for all development practitioners and reminds us to beware of easy fixes.' Saman Yazdani Khan, Centre for Health and Population Studies, Pakistan 'This timely volume explores poverty and health in the context of the free market. The application of human rights to safeguard the health of poor people is illustrated with clarity and conviction.' Lucia D'Ambruoso, University of Aberdeen 'This book is a comprehensive assessment of the health consequences of poverty: it is courageous in its honesty and appropriately demanding of its reader. We must act.' Stephen Leeder, University of Sydney (Emeritus) 'Presents compelling evidence of diverse health inequities, traversing both political economy and political ecology, that continue to haunt global conscience.' Rajib Dasgupta, Jawaharlal Nehru University 'A thought-provoking and provocative collection of essays that amount to an urgently needed call for action in promoting global health. Contains important contributions from scholars and development practitioners in many countries.' Nicole Hassoun, Binghamton University
`Provides essential guidance for all development practitioners and reminds us to beware of easy fixes.' Saman Yazdani Khan, Centre for Health and Population Studies, Pakistan 'This timely volume explores poverty and health in the context of the free market. The application of human rights to safeguard the health of poor people is illustrated with clarity and conviction.' Lucia D'Ambruoso, University of Aberdeen `This book is a comprehensive assessment of the health consequences of poverty: it is courageous in its honesty and appropriately demanding of its reader. We must act.' Stephen Leeder, University of Sydney (Emeritus) `Presents compelling evidence of diverse health inequities, traversing both political economy and political ecology, that continue to haunt global conscience.' Rajib Dasgupta, Jawaharlal Nehru University 'A thought-provoking and provocative collection of essays that amount to an urgently needed call for action in promoting global health. Contains important contributions from scholars and development practitioners in many countries.' Nicole Hassoun, Binghamton University
'As the world moves from the Millennium Development Goals to much more extensive Sustainable Development Goals, Sodhi and Karan are to be congratulated in giving us a timely reminder of the complexities involved. The book provides essential guidance for all development practitioners and reminds us to beware of easy fixes.' Saman Yazdani Khan, director of the Centre for Health and Population Studies, Pakistan 'This timely volume explores poverty and health in the context of the free market. Tracing ambiguities and contradictions in the commodification of medicine, the application of human rights to safeguard the health of poor people is illustrated with clarity and conviction. In an era of deepening divisions between the many and the few this is a critical contribution.' Lucia D'Ambruoso, lecturer in global health, University of Aberdeen 'This book is a comprehensive assessment of the health consequences of poverty: it is courageous in its honesty and appropriately demanding of its reader. We must act.' Stephen Leeder, emeritus professor, The University of Sydney 'Protecting the Health of the Poor is an immensely important and timely volume. It sheds powerful light on movements of resistance and hope.' Amiya Kumar Bagchi, emeritus professor, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata 'Presents compelling evidence of diverse health inequities, traversing both political economy and political ecology, that continue to haunt global conscience. Accounts of progressive movements and interventions help sustain optimism in the continuing struggle towards achieving health as an undeniable human right.' Rajib Dasgupta, Jawaharlal Nehru University 'A thought-provoking and provocative collection of essays that amount to an urgently needed call for action in promoting global health. Contains important contributions from scholars and development practitioners in many countries.' Nicole Hassoun, Binghamton University 'As the world moves from the Millennium Development Goals to much more extensive Sustainable Development Goals, Sodhi and Karan are to be congratulated in giving us a timely reminder of the complexities involved. The book provides essential guidance for all development practitioners and reminds us to beware of easy fixes.' Saman Yazdani Khan, director of the Centre for Health and Population Studies, Pakistan 'This timely volume explores poverty and health in the context of the free market. Tracing ambiguities and contradictions in the commodification of medicine, the application of human rights to safeguard the health of poor people is illustrated with clarity and conviction. In an era of deepening divisions between the many and the few this is a critical contribution.' Lucia D'Ambruoso, lecturer in global health, University of Aberdeen 'This book is a comprehensive assessment of the health consequences of poverty: it is courageous in its honesty and appropriately demanding of its reader. We must act.' Stephen Leeder, emeritus professor, The University of Sydney 'Protecting the Health of the Poor is an immensely important and timely volume. It sheds powerful light on movements of resistance and hope.' Amiya Kumar Bagchi, emeritus professor, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata 'Presents compelling evidence of diverse health inequities, traversing both political economy and political ecology, that continue to haunt global conscience. Accounts of progressive movements and interventions help sustain optimism in the continuing struggle towards achieving health as an undeniable human right.' Rajib Dasgupta, Jawaharlal Nehru University 'A thought-provoking and provocative collection of essays that amount to an urgently needed call for action in promoting global health. Contains important contributions from scholars and development practitioners in many countries.' Nicole Hassoun, Binghamton University
Author Information
Abraar Karan is an MD candidate in the Global Health Pathway at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, where he serves as the student body president. His writings have been featured in a number of well-known publication venues, including Medscape, The Lancet, Academic Medicine, PLoS Global Health, Global Post, Kevin MD, and the Global Health Hub. Geeta Sodhi, DNB (Paeds), is a qualified paediatrician who veered into public health and the development sector more than two decades ago as a social entrepreneur. Her research has been published in various edited volumes, and she has been an invited speaker at several international conferences and academic institutions.
