1st Edition

Sacrificing the WHO to the Highest Bidder

By Theodore Macdonald, James Raftery Copyright 2008
248 Pages
by CRC Press

248 Pages
by CRC Press

This remarkable book offers enlightening reading for everyone interested in international law, human rights, global health, public health and health promotion. Public health and health promotion professionals, including international healthcare organisations, care agencies, and international charities will find the analysis illuminating. It is also of great interest to policy makers and shapers in... Read more
The UN – Its origins, problems and contradictions. Selling off the UN to neoliberalism. Privatisation of water – and the problems of sustainability. Dams and dambusters. WHO – accessory after the fact? The UN’s dalliance with nuclear power. Neoliberalism and the human right to health. Is the WHO mandate workable? Summary and recommendations.

Biography

Theodore Macdonald, James Raftery