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Reimagining Global Health

An Introduction

Paul Farmer Arthur Kleinman Jim Kim Matthew Basilico

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English
University of California Press
07 September 2013
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.

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Imprint:   University of California Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Volume:   26
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 33mm
Weight:   816g
ISBN:   9780520271999
ISBN 10:   0520271998
Series:   California Series in Public Anthropology
Pages:   504
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  A / AS level ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Paul Farmer is co-founder of Partners In Health and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He has authored numerous books, including Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and The New War on the Poor. Jim Yong Kim is co-founder of Partners In Health and the current President of the World Bank Group. Arthur Kleinman is Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University and Professor of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is the author of numerous influential works including The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, And The Human Condition. Matthew Basilico is a medical student at Harvard Medical School and a PhD candidate in economics at Harvard University. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Malawi, where he has lived and worked with his wife Marguerite.

Reviews for Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction

Reimagining Global Health will surely prove useful as an introductory textbook for undergraduate and graduate students in public health, human biology and anthropology, and various other disciplines. American Journal of Human Biology 20140401 This well-written and accessible introduction to problems of global health will shape the developing discipline's future and bring attention to the pressing need for global health equity. Medical Humanities 20140422 A must read for students and faculty in public health, medicine, and anthropology. CHOICE 20140801


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