The New Global Health Movement: Rx for the World?
World health is at a critical crossroads. Diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS ravage many parts of the globe and new diseases such as SARS, West Nile virus, and avian flu threaten to spread quickly and virulently. A new global health movement is rapidly emerging to bring medical sol...
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crjohnshopkinsun:10.1353/nlh.2007.0045 2024-06-23T07:51:27+00:00 The New Global Health Movement: Rx for the World? Lewis, Bradley 2007 http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/nlh.2007.0045 en eng Project MUSE New Literary History volume 38, issue 3, page 459-477 ISSN 1080-661X journal-article 2007 crjohnshopkinsun https://doi.org/10.1353/nlh.2007.0045 2024-05-30T08:19:37Z World health is at a critical crossroads. Diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS ravage many parts of the globe and new diseases such as SARS, West Nile virus, and avian flu threaten to spread quickly and virulently. A new global health movement is rapidly emerging to bring medical solutions to these immense world health problems. Desirable as this goal may be there are multiple negative consequences and side effects associated with this new movement. Using a biocultural approach, this article considers the wider social and cultural complications of the global health movement and questions whether the movement can really offer an untainted Rx for the world's ills. Article in Journal/Newspaper Avian flu Johns Hopkins University Press New Literary History 38 3 459 477 |
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World health is at a critical crossroads. Diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS ravage many parts of the globe and new diseases such as SARS, West Nile virus, and avian flu threaten to spread quickly and virulently. A new global health movement is rapidly emerging to bring medical solutions to these immense world health problems. Desirable as this goal may be there are multiple negative consequences and side effects associated with this new movement. Using a biocultural approach, this article considers the wider social and cultural complications of the global health movement and questions whether the movement can really offer an untainted Rx for the world's ills. |
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