This collection of key source materials documents the history of the field, identifies important turning points in research and practice, and indicates key challenges for the future. It also addresses the urgent need for perspectives from the global South to complement the more familiar ones of official documents and researchers in high-income countries.

Global Health includes four volumes: Volume One: Historical Perspectives: From International to Global Health

Volume Two: Scientific Advances

Volume Three: Scientific Consolidation

Volume Four: Global Health Ethics, Public Policy and...

Ted Schrecker and Clare Bambra argue that the obesity, insecurity, austerity and inequality that result from neoliberal (or 'market fundamentalist') policies are hazardous to our health, asserting that these neoliberal epidemics require a political cure.

Management consultant Kenichi Ohmae describes the new reality of global economic competition as a 'borderless world'. What is the future of human values, and of environmental quality, in such a world? The authors whose work is collected in Surviving Globalism try to answer these questions from the point of view of sociology, social history, philosophy, geography and political theory. Many argue that the gains made over the last few decades in terms of social justice and environmental protection are in grave peril. Others take a somewhat more optimistic note, but all emphasize the importance...