Preface: Diagnosing global injustice / Joia Mukherjee -- Introduction: Globalization and health / Meredith Fort -- The lethal divide: how economic inequality affects health / Stephen Bezruchka and Mary Anne Mercer -- The legacy of colonial medicine / Oscar Gish -- The primary health care movement meets the free market / Evelyne Hong -- Sapping the poor: the impact of structural adjustment programs / Steve Gloyd -- The failures of neoliberalism: health sector reform in Guatemala / Juan Carlos Verdugo -- HMOs abroad: managed care in Latin America / Celia Iriart, Howard Waitzkin, and Emerson Merhy -- Trade and health care: corporatizing vital human services / Ellen Shaffer and Joseph Brenner -- Militarism and the social production of disease / Seiji Yamada -- Stolen harvest: the hijacking of the global food supply / Vandana Shiva -- The political roots of South Africa's cholera epidemic / Patrick Bond -- The reglobalization of malaria / Timothy Holtz and S. Patrick Kachur -- The battle against global AIDS / Paul Davis and Meredith Fort -- The struggle for people's health / Alejandro Cerón, Abhijit Das, and Meredith Fort -- Conclusion: Shall we leave it to the experts? / Mary Anne Mercer
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