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Awakening Hippocrates : a primer on health, poverty, and global service / by Edward O'Neil, Jr.

Title
Awakening Hippocrates : a primer on health, poverty, and global service / by Edward O'Neil, Jr.
Author
O'Neil, Edward.
Publication
Chicago, Ill. : American Medical Association, c2006.

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xxxviii, 502 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
"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.
Subject
  • Volunteers
  • Poverty
  • Public health
  • Human rights
  • Volunteer workers in medical care
  • Global Health
  • International Cooperation
  • Health Services Accessibility
  • Global Health
  • Public Health
  • Human Rights
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
1579477720
LCCN
^^2005030364
OCLC
62188876
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library