Dying For Growth Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor Health and Social Justice 1st Edition by Jim Yong Kim, Joyce Milieu, Alec Irwin, John Gershman ISBN 978-1567511604 1567511604

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ISBN 10:  1567511604

ISBN 13: 978-1567511604

Author:  Jim Yong Kim, Joyce V. Milieu, Alec Irwin, John Gershman 

This collection of fourteen case studies from all over the world examines the root causes and effects of a global economic system that consigns a fifth of the world’s population to abject poverty and offers more equitable alternatives. Simultaneous.

Table of contents: 

PART I: INTRODUCTION TO THE PROBLEM
CHAPTER ONE
Introduction: What is Growing? Who is Dying?
Joyce V. Millen, Alec Irwin, and Jim Yong Kim

CHAPTER TWO
Getting a Grip on the Global Economy
John Gershman and Alec Irwin

CHAPTER THREE
Terms Reconsidered: Decoding Development Discourse
Aaron Shakow and Alec Irwin

PART II: GROWTH STRATEGIES, STATE RESTRUCTURING, AND THE HEALTH OF THE POOR
CHAPTER FOUR
Hypocrisies of Development and the Health of the Haitian Poor
Paul Farmer and Didi Bertrand

CHAPTER FIVE
Theoretical Therapies, Remote Remedies: SAPs and the Political Ecology of Poverty and Health in Africa
Brooke G. Schoepf, Claude Schoepf, and Joyce V. Millen

CHAPTER SIX
Sickness Amidst Recovery: Public Debt and Private Suffering in Peru
Jim Yong Kim, Aaron Shakow, Jaime Bayona, Joe Rhatigan, and Emma L. Rubín de Celis

CHAPTER SEVEN
Neoliberal Economic Policy, “State Desertion,” and the Russian Health Crisis
Mark G. Field, David M. Kotz, and Gene Bukhman

PART III
POWERFUL PLAYERS, HARMFUL CONSEQUENCES: TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS, INEQUALITY, AND HEALTH

CHAPTER EIGHT
Dying for Growth, Part I: Transnational Corporations and the Health of the Poor
Joyce V. Millen and Timothy H. Holtz

CHAPTER NINE
Dying for Growth, Part II: The Political Influence of National and Transnational Corporations
Joyce V. Millen, Evan Lyon, and Alec Irwin

CHAPTER TEN
Tragedy Without End: The 1984 Bhopal Gas Disaster
Timothy H. Holtz

CHAPTER ELEVEN
Neoliberal Trade and Investment and the Health of Maquiladora Workers on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Joel Brenner, Jennifer Ross, Janie Simmons, and Sarah Zaidi

PART IV
ILLICIT GROWTH: U.S. DRUG POLICY AND GLOBAL INEQUALITY

CHAPTER TWELVE
The Drug War in Perspective
Arnold Chien, Margaret Connors, and Kenneth Fox

PART V
ALTERNATIVES TO THE AGENDA

CHAPTER THIRTEEN
“The Threat of a Good Example”: Health and Revolution in Cuba
Aviva Chomsky

CHAPTER FOURTEEN
The Smoke and Mirrors of Health Reform in El Salvador: Community Health NGOs and the Not-So-Neoliberal State
Sandy Smith-Nonini

CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Conclusion: Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will
Joyce V. Millen, Alec Irwin, and Jim Yong Kim

CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Pragmatic Solidarity
Heena Patel, Joyce V. Millen, and Evan Lyon

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