[EQ] Global Health in Times of Violence

Global Health in Times of Violence

Explores human rights and social justice through the intersection of global health and violence

Co-edited by Paul Farmer, Linda Whiteford, and Barbara Rylko-Bauer
Published by SAR (School for Advanced Research) Press. 2009

Website: www.globalhealth.sarweb.org

 

PDF [14p.] Prologue Coming to Terms with Global Violence and Health:
https://www12.ssldomain.com/schoolofamericanresearch/sarpress/images/pdf/sarpress_122.pdf

‘….What are the prospects for human health in a world threatened by disease and violence? Since World War II, at least 160 wars have erupted around the globe. Over 24 million people have died in these conflicts, and millions more suffered illness and injury. In this volume, leading scholars and practitioners examine the impact of structural, military, and communal violence on health, psychosocial well-being, and health care delivery.

 

By investigating the fields of violence that define our modern world, the authors are able to provide alternative global health paradigms that can be used to develop more effective policies and programs….”

Table of Contents from Global Health in Times of Violence

 

1. Prologue: Coming to Terms with Global Violence and Health -   Barbara Rylko-Bauer, Linda Whiteford, and Paul Farmer

2. Recognizing Invisible Violence: A Thirty-Year Ethnographic Retrospective -   Philippe Bourgois

3. “Landmine Boy” and the Tomorrow of Violence -  Paul Farmer

4. Fault Lines  - Carolyn Nordstrom

5. Failure to Protect, Failure to Provide: Refugee Reproductive Rights -   Linda Whiteford

6. A Violence of History: Accounting for AIDS in Post-apartheid South Africa  - Didier Fassin

7. Desperate Measures: A Syndemic Approach to the Anthropology of Health in a Violent City  - Merrill Singer

8. The Vicissitudes of Structural Violence: Nicaragua at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century  - James Quesada

9. Planting “Seeds of Health” in the Fields of Structural Violence: The Life and Death of Francisco Curruchiche -  H. K. Heggenhougen

10. Medicine in the Political Economy of Brutality: Reflections from the Holocaust and Beyond -  Barbara Rylko-Bauer

11. Epilogue: Global Health in Times of Violence—Finding Hope -  Linda Whiteford, Barbara Rylko-Bauer, and Paul Farmer

 

 

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