Awakening Hippocrates : a primer on health, poverty, and global service /
"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.
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Chicago, Ill. :
American Medical Association,
[2006]
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Table of Contents:
- Health, poverty, and structural violence
- The rise of health in the industrialized world
- Global repercussions : diffusion, the United Nations, and nongovernmental organizations
- Development and foreign aid : perceptions and realities of our beneficence, part I, bilateral aid
- Development and foreign aid : perceptions and realities of our beneficence, part II multilateral aid
- Forces of disparity I : private financial flows, trade, multinational corporations, and inequality
- Forces of disparity II : history, racism, governance, and militarism
- Forces of disparity III : kids, sexism, population, nature, and infectious diseases
- Lessons from a plague : the history, scope, and politics of HIV/AIDS
- Ethics, human rights, and religion
- Thomas Anthony Dooley, MD
- Father Bill Fryda, MD
- Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, and Jim Yong Kim, MD, PhD
- Peter Allen, DMD
- Thomas S. "doc" Durant, MD
- The life of Albert Schweitzer, MD
- Reverence for life : the compelling and timeless ideal of Albert Schweitzer, MD
- Appendix A. The Universal declaration of human rights
- Appendix B. UN millennium development goals