To submit a review of a book or article email
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
|
|
Review of Values in Global Health Governance |
 |
 |
 |
|
Open Think Tank -
Book Reviews
|
|
Written by David Gleicher and Miriam Faid
|
|
Thursday, 25 March 2010 09:30 |
|
In their recent article Values in Global Health Governance, Professors Benatar, Lister and Thacker call into question the values that direct our actions today in global health. The argument they put forward is that current approaches based on individualism and the respect of human rights, economic liberalism, corporatism and managerialism, a focus on biomedical science rather than social solutions, and a simplistic linear approach to health problems have failed. The origin of these failures, they suggest, stems not from our actions themselves but the overarching values and ideologies which have determined our actions. As such, they bring into question the very fabric of modern civilisation. In solution they suggest that the academic field of bioethics be transformed into a forum to promote a public discourse on new values and the development of a framework that combines understanding of global interdependencies with enlightened long-term self-interest.
|
|
Read more ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Open Think Tank 
Professor Graham Lister reviews "The G20 and the three global crises: what prospects for global health?" a recent editorial article published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health by Dr. Roberto De Vogli and Dr. David Gimeno.
In his book "Turning the World Upside Down: the search for global health in the 21st Century" Nigel Crisp draws on his experience as Chief Executive of England's National Health Service, as Chair of Sightsavers International and The Global Health Workforce Alliance, to challenge the accepted wisdom of 20th century health and development.
Making Sense of Global Health Governance - A Policy Perspective Edited by Kent Buse, Wolfgang Hein and Nick Drager was published in 2009 by Palgrave Macmillian. Below is a review by Layla Yüzen, research assistant at the Munich Center on Governance, Communication, Public Policy and Law (MCG). The review was first published in GLOBAL HEALTH GOVERNANCE, VOLUME II, NO. 2 (FALL 2008/SPRING 2009)