Introduction -- Pilgrimage: from "glocality" to global health -- Private lens, public health: a reluctant physician in nineteenth-century America -- From Matthew 25 to Article 25: ESC rights matter -- Between Cape Town and Memphis: religious health assets -- Don't teach me to fish: what's wrong with gift-charity?
Summary
Global health-related efforts today are usually shaped by two very different ideological approaches. They either reflect a human rights-based approach to health and equity, or they express religious or humanitarian 'aid'. Susan Holman challenges this stereotypical polarisation through stories designed to help shape a new lens on global health, one that envisions a multi-disciplinary integration of respect for religion and culture with an equal respect for and engagement with human rights and social justice
