International Association for Humanitarian Medicine (IAHM) Brock Chisholm

Humanitarian Medicine

Undestanding the Global Dimension of Health brings up into sharp focus the ethics and multiple questions involved in keeping the developing world in optional health and identifies the massive tasks that lie ahead. Twenty-one internationally known contributors examine the bioethical, sociopolitical and scientific aspect of health, epidemics, ageing populations, the double burden of disease and food safety, and other major health concerns of well-being at international level.

Edited by S. William A. Gunn, P.B. Mansurian, A.M. Davies, A. Piel and B. McA Sayers.

Published in USA in 2005 by Springer
ISBN-10: 0-387-24102-7
Pages 303

Contents

Introduction	xi
SECTION I. FUNDAMENTALS	1
Chapter 1 . A Brief History of Advance Toward Health J.Last	3
Chapter 2 . The Health, Poverty, and Developrnent Merry-Go-Round: The Tribulations of WHO S. Litsios	15
Chapter 3 . Old and New Pestilences A. A. Arata	35
Chapter 4 . Value Systerns and Healthcare Ethics B. M. Dickens	55
Chapter 5 . World Health: A Mobilizing Utopia? I M. Fliedner - M. Manciaux	69
SECTION II. SYSTEMS	83
Chapter 6 . Health Policies versus Public Policies A. Wojtczak	85
Chapter 7 . A Medicine Based on Evidence J. Szczerban	103
Chapter 8 . The Promise of Technology P. B. Mansourian	121
Chapter 9 . CriticaI Inquiries on Technology Utilization A. Kazanjian	133
Chapter 10 . Therapeutic Patient Education for Chronic Diseases J. P. Assal	147
SECTION III. THE DYNAMICS	157
Chapter 11 . The Humanitarian Imperative in Major Health Crises and Disasters S. W. A. Gunn	159
Chapter 12 . Dealing with Global Infectious Disease Emergencies D. L Heymann	169
Chapter 13 . Knowledge-based Methodologies in the Health Sector B. McA Sayers - J.J. Angulo	143
Chapter 14 . Food Safety-A Pressing Public Health and Economic E. Kaferstein	199
Chapter 15 . Future Health in an Ageing World A. M. Davies	213
SECTION IV. THE CONTROVERSIES	229
Chapter 16 . Disease and Health in the Cultural Context A. Jablensky	231
Chapter 17 . Global Issues and Health Interactions: Reflexions from the South A.P.R. Aluwihare	241
Chapter 18 . The Coming Storm: Health System Planning Versus Free Market Enterprise A. Piel	253
Chapter 19 . Education, Understanding, and Eudaemonia:A Contrarian View on Global Health G. W Brauer	267
Postscript: The Present and the Future of Global Health A. M. Davies	281
The Contributors	287
Index	293