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Direct download links available PRETITLE Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction POSTTITLE from 4shared, mediafire, hotfile, and mirror linkBringing 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.Direct download links available for PRETITLE Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction (California Series in Public Anthropology) [Kindle Edition] POSTTITLE

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• Print Length: 512 pages
• Publisher: University of California Press; 1 edition (September 18, 2013)
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• Language: English
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"Reimagining Global Health" is the compilation of decades of experience of learning and teaching about the intersection of public health and health care delivery in some of the world's most challenging environments. A full arsenal of perspectives, including medical, anthropological, political, and philosophical, is brought to bear on the problems of identifying need, determining solutions, and bringing them to scale.
Everyone involved in improving the health of underserved populations can learn something from this textbook, which modestly calls itself "An Introduction" but delves into deep concepts.

By Lawrence H. Moulton

The writing is clear and the chapters are well edited. There is an excellent balance between caution and optimism--pitfalls and potential errors are highlighted, but not so much that a person who is interested in Global Health would be dissuaded from pursuing it. The commentary on the role of faith in Global Health is restrained and respectful of various views.
I found that this book was useful to myself (a US physician) and to my colleagues (community health workers and nurses in Zambia.) It did not have a completely American outlook, though it was accessible to Americans.

By m c munoz