Health, Trade and Human Rights: Using Film and Other Visual Media in Graduate and Medical Education, v. 2 - Softcover

MacDonald, Theodore H.; Tutu, Archbishop Desmond; Chickadonz, Grace H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846190509 ISBN 13: 9781846190506

Publisher: CRC Press, 2006

Synopsis

This work contains forewords by Desmond M. Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus, Cape Town, South Africa and Mogobe Ramose, Chairperson and Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of South Africa. "Health, Trade and Human Rights" shows how a policy of 'free' rather than 'fair' trade increasingly undermines Third World health. It clearly illustrates how the looming environmental crisis combined with growing levels of health inequity will have adverse effects and details precisely how the 'basic human rights' enshrined in the UN Charter have gradually become subsidiary to the dictates of free trade, enforced by the World Trade Organisation. This groundbreaking new book argues the need for impartial, data-based, and transnational arbitration of equity in health and other human rights - and suggests how this might be accomplished without violence to national rights, with an emphasis on 'regional free trade'. "Health, Trade and Human Rights" provides vital, thought provoking information for general readers with an interest in the Third World and social welfare. Academics and students studying development, international studies and public health will find it invaluable, as will healthcare professionals, international healthcare organisations, care agencies, and international charities. Policy makers and shapers in communities and government will find the content revelatory as will political activists and those with an interest in equality and globalisation. '[The book] criticises the basis, the method and the extent to which the politics of wealth continues to undermine and violate the right of the poor to good health. The combination of experience with scientific rigour is presented in accessible everyday language. It is seductive; inviting the curiosity of the reader to last until the very end of the book. MacDonald's message is clear and unambiguous: war is no longer the father of all things. Instead, justice is the mother of all peace.' - Mogobe Ramose, in his Foreword. 'Astonishingly accessible, informing and inspiring. Statistically sound, penetratingly. accurate, admirably balanced. Theodore MacDonald writes with passion, as well as with sense. Much of what he has to say is drawn from his own experience working as a medical doctor and a mathematician in a broad range of the world's poorest nations. But overarching that is a powerful insight into social and economic issues, along with well-honed skills as a communicator. I am pleased to recommend this splendid book.' - Desmond M. Tutu, in his Foreword.

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Review

'An easily read overview of some of the principal threats to health suffered by people in what he describes as the'Third World'. The book benefits enormously from MacDonald's own insights acquired by working over the years in numerous developing country settings as both a doctor and a mathematician.'SALLY RUANE, DIVERSITY IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE

About the Author

Fellow, Institute of Human Rights and Social Justice, Metropolitan University of London, External Examiner, Postgraduate Department of Medicine, University of Central Lancashire

About this edition

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1846190509
• ISBN 13: 9781846190506
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 136