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Humanitarian Medicine


Undestanding the Global Dimension of Health analizza le molteplici questioni anche di carattere etico coinvolte nello sviluppo del mondo e dei sistemi sanitari identificando il ruolo determinante che essi occupano. Ventuno personalità internazionalmente conosciute esaminano gli aspetti bioetica, sociopolitici e scientifici della salute, delle epidemie, dell’invecchiamento della popolazione, delle malattie e della sicurezza del cibo, e di altri aspetti rilevanti che concernono la salute ed il benessere a livello internazionale.

Edito da S. William A. Gunn, P.B. Mansurian, A.M. Davies, A. Piel e B. McA Sayers.

Pubblicato negli USA nel 2005 dalla Springer
ISBN-10: 0-387-24102-7
Pag. 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