Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction (California Series in Public Anthropology)

Farmer, Paul; Kim, Jim Yong; Kleinman, Arthur; Basilico, Matthew

ISBN 10: 0520271998 / ISBN 13: 9780520271999

Published by University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction (California Series in Public Anthropology)
• Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520271998
• ISBN 13: 9780520271999
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.