Synopses & Reviews
This volume brings together a collection of essays from researchers engaged in, or concerned with, the politics of global health. It addresses the power relations which drive global health strategies, frustrate the possibility of effective engagement and operate to relegate billions of people to a vulnerable and bleak future. From a broad engagement with the global health system, the volume focuses on arguably the most pressing public health issue of modern times - the effective global governance of HIV/AIDS. The underlying objective is to help generate a timely debate and understanding of the impact of globalization on health and the plight of the vulnerable.
About the Author
Nana K. Poku is a Lecturer in Security Studies, Department of Politics, University of Southampton.
Table of Contents
A Human Right to Health?--T.Evans * Drug Access, Patents and Global Health: 'Chaffed and Waxed Sufficient'--M.Heywood * Putting Gender into Helath and Globalization Debates: New Perspectives and Old Challenges--L.Doyal * Trade Policy and the Politics of Access to Drugs--C.Thomas * The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: The Politics of Global Health Governance--J.Collin,
K.Lee & K.Bissell * The Global AIDS Fund: Context and Opportunity--N.K.Poku * Debt, Adjustment and the Politics of Effective Response to HIV/AIDS in Africa--F.Cheru * Poverty and HIV/AIDS in Africa--A.Whiteside * Politics in the Hot Zone: AIDS and National Security in Africa--R.L.Ostergard, Jr * HIV/AIDS and Older Women in Zambia: Concern for Self, Worry Over Daughters, Towers of Strength--C.Baylies * The 'Nameless Fever': The HIV/AIDS Pandemic and China's Women--N.Renwick