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Sickness and Wealth | Praise
“A
timely, radical, and accessible tool for understanding the corporate attack
on health care as a right. An exceptional mix of activist and scholarly voices
makes Sickness and Wealth stand apart. This book is indispensable to
those interested in health and social justice.”
—Sarah Shannon, Hesperian Foundation
“Sickness
and Wealth arrives none too soon. This important book is published as
a growing unease spreads among those who have access to books, whether published
in English or any other language. The reading classes are learning what the
world’s bottom billion have long been forced to know: that global economic
and social arrangements are increasingly inegalitarian and are bad for our
health. Militarization, privatization, and unfair trade policies are in fact
tightly linked to diseases such as malaria, cholera, and AIDS; current policies
have sapped the movement for primary health care for all. Sickness and
Wealth exposes the mechanisms of these connections. ‘Knowledge is
power’ now sounds like a silly piety in large part because the vast preponderance
of knowledge long available buttresses the central theses of this book. Power
is power. But Sickness and Wealth gives teachers and activists and
other concerned citizens of a sickly planet a new tool, one designed to help
us do more than merely annoy the powerful architects of the unhealthy policies
that move the globe towards much more preventable sickness and disease.”
—Paul Farmer, Partners
in Health
“The
essays in this volume demonstrate in so many ways how the achievement of health
for all is not just a matter of providing more clinics and more medicine.
With passion and eloquence, they show that ending human rights violations
that deprive people of access to health care and the conditions for leading
healthy lives is central to that struggle.”
—Leonard S. Rubenstein, Physicians for Human
Rights
“This
exciting book drives home connections on local and global levels, making it
abundantly clear that perverse incentives should be eliminated and new financial
resources created to start—and sustain—equitable development and
health for all.”
—Paul R. Epstein, Center for Health and the
Global Environment
Praise for Health Alliance International
“Over
the last ten years, Health Alliance International has demonstrated that progressive
health professionals can still effectively combine political analysis, advocacy,
and activism with on-the-ground health practice in this era of relentless
attacks on equity-oriented health service delivery. Their potent blend of
pragmatism and principled commitment to public sector health care has made
them extraordinarily effective at both promoting equity-oriented policy and
strengthening the actual provision of sustainable local services.”
—James Pfeiffer, Case Western University
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