Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction

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

Categories: Medical Books, Politics & Social Sciences

Reimagining Global Health (2013), edited by Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, Arthur Kleinman and Matthew Basilico, is an introduction to global health based on a Harvard course. It covers the history of colonial and international medicine and the debates over how to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. The contributors argue for a biosocial approach that links disease to poverty and inequality, and for health care as a right.

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• Bill Gates: “If you really want to dig in to the details, Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction is a good place to start—it’s based on a course he co-taught at Harvard.”