1st Edition

Imperialism, Health and Medicine

By Vicente Navarro Copyright 1981
    286 Pages
    by Routledge

    286 Pages
    by Routledge

    Includes articles which offer an alternative view of the political and economic causes of substandard health care in the underdeveloped societies of the Third World.

    •Introduction: The Nature of Imperialism and Its Implications in Health and Medicine
    Vicente Navarro


    PART 1: The Political and Economic Determinants of the Underdevelopment of Health and Health Services
    •The Underdevelopment of Health or the Health of Underdevelopment: An Analysis of the Distribution of Human Health Resources in Latin America
    Vicente Navarro
    •Human Rights, Health, and Capital Accumulation in the Third World
    Michel Chossudovsky
    •The Economic and Political Determinants of Human (Including Health) Rights
    Vicente Navarro
    •Drought and Dependence in the Sahel
    Nicole Ball


    PART 2: U.S. Foundations, U.S. Foreign Policy and International Health
    •Foreign Intervention in Medical Education: A Case Study of the Rockefeller Foundation's Involvement in a Thai Medical School
    PeterJ. Donaldson
    •Nutrition, Development, and Foreign Aid: A Case Study of U.S. Directed Health Care in a Columbian Plantation Zone
    Michael Taussig
    •Community Medicine Under Imperialism: A New Medical Police?
    Jaime Breilh


    PART 3: Critiques of Malthusian and Neo-Malthusian Population Theories and Their Political Function
    •Population Growth--A Menace to What?
    Erland Hofsten
    •An Historical Sketch of the American Population Control Movement
    Bonnie Mass


    PART 4: Corporate Power and Underdevelopment
    •Industrialization and Occupational Health in Underdeveloped Countries
    Ray H. Elling
    •Breast-Feeding: The Role of Multinational Corporations Latin America
    Michael B. Bader
    •The Political Economy of Controlling Transnationals: The Pharmaceutical Industry in Sri Lanka, 1972-1976
    Sanjaya Lall and Senaka Bibile
    •Contributors
     

     

    Biography

    Vicente Navarro,