ITEM OVERVIEW
In this path-breaking collection, international activists and scholars—including Vandana Shiva and Patrick Bond—reveal how plans implemented by the World Bank, the WTO, and other first world interests drastically limit access to medical care and essentially sentence millions to disease and premature death. They show how the corporate health model is being exported to poor countries, and illuminate the tangible and often devastating consequences of privatization and reduced social services. Powerful and accessible, Sickness and Wealth at least documents the pioneering work of activists and organizations committed to the radical notion that the right to health is not for sale.
"The reading classes are learning what the world's bottom billion have long been forced to know: that global economic and social arrangements are increasingly inegalitarian and are bad for our health. Militarization, privatization, and unfair trade policies are in fact tightly linked to diseases such as malaria, cholera, and AIDS. Sickness and Wealth exposes the mechanisms of these connections." —Paul Farmer
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