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Dying for
Growth
Global Inequality and the Health of
the Poor
Edited by Jim Yong Kim, Joyce V.
Millen, Alec Irwin, and John Gershman
Viewing the contemporary world
from the perspective of health outcomes, this penetrating and
often harrowing inquiry provides a wealth of valuable insights
and analyses, woven together with in-depth studies that are
poignant, vivid, and highly informative. It is a challenge to
complacency, a thoughtful and compelling call to action—Noam Chomsky
Thanks to the
painstaking research, uncompromising analysis and compassionate
advocacy of the Institute for Health and Social Justice,
official and corporate actors of globalization will have no
place to hide. Dying for Growth reveals in relentless
detail the brutal health outcomes of their policies and provides
proof positive that their vaunted 'concern for the poor' is a
sham. A big, thorough, important book full of high caliber
ammunition to be directed forthwith at the originators of
limitless human suffering.—Susan George,
Associate Director of
the Transnational Institute, Author of
A Fate Worse Than and
Faith and Credit
Dying for Growth
is a deeply intelligent, thoroughly researched analysis of
global health and inequality at the end of the 20th Century. It
is a book of passion and courage that does not simply make
indignant claims, but rather provides solid evidence of a causal
relationship between failures of the current development
paradigm and worsening poverty and human suffering. Written by a
team of experienced health practitioners, social scientists and
development workers, the volume speaks from both the heart and
the mind about the urgent need to prioritize social justice and
universal health improvements.
Dying for Growth is a
'must-read' for all citizens and activists committed to
meaningful change, who believe that health is central to the
dignity of the person—James Orbinski
In an era in which
the globalization of corporate enterprise has become prominent,
this volume examines globalization's consequences for the health
and welfare of poor people. Through sound scholarship,
Dying for Growth documents widening economic disparities. yet the
book also demonstrates how equitable adversity. By showing that
increased suffering among the poor is not an inevitable
byproduct of our modern economy, it is a book that offers hope.
For all those interested in equity and social justice this is an
important volume which should have a large audience.—Julius B. Richmond, M.D.
Through documented
evidence and careful analysis,
Dying for Growth shatters
the myth that the prevailing form of globalization is inevitable
and shows that economic growth alone will not cure our ailing
world. The poor, the ill, and the landless take center stage in
this work. They speak of the need to move beyond the tunnel
vision of unbridled economic growth and journey on a path that
will bring food, education, and adequate health care to all.
Bravo to the Institute for Health and Social Justice for
exposing the human consequences of unjust global economic
policies.—Jean-Bertrand Aristide,
Former
President of Haiti and Author of
Eyes of the Heart
Dying for Growth's
compelling case studies document how globalization--largely
uncontrolled by nations but carefully controlled by
corporations--is a major cause of global deterioration in the
health and well-being of millions of people. Anyone concerned
about this rapidly growing problem needs to read this excellent
book, which brings together in one place, for the first time, an
abundance of timely and important information with thousands of
listed references.—Sidney Wolfe, M.D., Directly of
Public Citizen's Health Research Group
This impressive book is for all those who are
puzzled by the failures of trickle down economics. In highly
accessible prose, Dying for Growth explains why, amid
extraordinary growth in world wealth, hundreds of millions still
lack resources to secure adequate food, shelter, and healthcare.
Through meticulous research, the authors trace how political and
economic policies, such as structural adjustment programs,
exacerbating global disparities and render the poorest people
even more vulnerable to disease. Dying for Growth offers
countless insights to students, policy makers, and health care
workers. It will serve as an invaluable resource guide for all
those interested in working to improve the health and well-being
of the entire global community.—Johanna P. Daily, M.D., Division of
Infectious Disease, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard
medical School and School of Public Health.
Jim Yong Kim, Joyce V. Millen, Alec Irwin, and
John Gershman, eds.
Dying for Growth: Global Inequality and
the Health of the Poor. *
* * * * Jim Yong Kim is a practicing physician and medical
anthropologist. he is Executive Director of Partners in health (PIH),
a public charity that works with sister organizations in Haiti,
Peru, Mexico, Cambodia, and the United States to improve health
outcomes for poor people. In his role, he works closely with
Socios en Salud, PIH's sister organization in Peru, a global
leader in combating the spread of multidrug resistant
tuberculosis. he also directs an HIV/AIDS treatment and
prevention program in Roxburg, Massachusetts. As Co-Director of
the program in Infectious Disease and Social change in the
Department of Social Medicine at Harvard medical School. Dr. Kim
teaches courses that focus on the nexus between poverty,
culture, and infectious disease. His research examines the
international pharmaceutical industry and pharmaceutical
distribution and use in developing countries.
Joyce V. Millen is Co-Director of the Institute for
Health and Social justice and a research associate in the
program in Infectious Disease and Social Change in the
Department of Social Medicine at Harvard medical School. She is
a medical anthropologist and also holds degrees in public health
and international relations. She worked for seven years on
health and agriculture projects in rural Senegal and has
evaluated development programs in several other African
countries. She ahs conducted extensive ethnomedical and
epidemiology research among two West African ethnic groups,
examining current political and socioeconomic forces that lead
to changes in disease patterns and prevalence. her current
research focuses on the health consequences of corporate-driven
globalization, especially for marginalized populations.
Alec Irwin is an Assistant professor in the Department
of religion at Amherst College and is research associate of the
Institute for Health and Social justice. His scholarship and
teaching explore how religious allegiances and conceptions of
the sacred intertwine with economic and political factors to
promote or inhibit social change. He is the author of Eros
Toward the World, a comparison of ideas of love in the work
of theologian Paul Tillich and in contemporary religious
feminism. His recent articles have focused on the politics of
sainthood in twentieth-century Europe. He is currently preparing
a study of French philosopher and social activist Simone Weil,
and is working to develop medical ethics and environmental
ethics courses critically attuned to patterns of transformation
in the global economy.
John Gershman is an Institute for Health and Social
Justice Research Associate and a visiting doctoral candidate at
Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School. A political
scientist by training, his research throughout the past 15 years
has focused on United States foreign policy in Asia,
nongovernmental organizations, and reform of international
financial institutions, all with a special emphasis on the
Philippines. He is co-editor of Trading Freedom: How Free
Trade Affects our Lives, Work, and Environment.
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Greenback Planet: How the Dollar Conquered
the World and Threatened Civilization as We Know It
By H. W. Brands
In Greenback Planet, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands charts the dollar's astonishing rise to become the world's principal currency. Telling the story with the verve of a novelist, he recounts key episodes in U.S. monetary history, from the Civil War debate over fiat money (greenbacks) to the recent worldwide financial crisis. Brands explores the dollar's changing relations to gold and silver and to other currencies and cogently explains how America's economic might made the dollar the fundamental standard of value in world finance. He vividly describes the 1869 Black Friday attempt to corner the gold market, banker J. P. Morgan's bailout of the U.S. treasury, the creation of the Federal Reserve, and President Franklin Roosevelt's handling of the bank panic of 1933. Brands shows how lessons learned (and not learned) in the Great Depression have influenced subsequent U.S. monetary policy, and how the dollar's dominance helped transform economies in countries ranging from Germany and Japan after World War II to Russia and China today. He concludes with a sobering dissection of the 2008 world financial debacle, which exposed the power--and the enormous risks--of the dollar's worldwide reign. The Economy |
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Sex at the Margins
Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
By Laura María Agustín
This book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work, that migrants who sell sex are passive victims and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura Agustín makes a passionate case against these stereotypes, arguing that the label 'trafficked' does not accurately describe migrants' lives and that the 'rescue industry' serves to disempower them. Based on extensive research amongst both migrants who sell sex and social helpers, Sex at the Margins provides a radically different analysis. Frequently, says Agustin, migrants make rational choices to travel and work in the sex industry, and although they are treated like a marginalised group they form part of the dynamic global economy. Both powerful and controversial, this book is essential reading for all those who want to understand the increasingly important relationship between sex markets, migration and the desire for social justice. "Sex at the Margins rips apart distinctions between migrants, service work and sexual labour and reveals the utter complexity of the contemporary sex industry. This book is set to be a trailblazer in the study of sexuality."—Lisa Adkins, University of London |
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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