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From: Sarah Rosenhek
Research Assistant
CENTRE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
Toronto, Ontario  
email: sarah at socialjustice.org



 Health for Some:
 Death, Disease and Disparity in a Globalizing Era
 by Ronald Labonte, Ted Schrecker, Amit Sen Gupta
 Published by the Centre for Social Justice.
 ISBN: 0-9733292-3-8       124 pages
 Price: $14.95 (bulk prices available on request)
 
 Health for Some investigates the impact of globalization
 on human health. Although increasing affluence improves  health,
globalization often fails to deliver rapid economic  growth and poverty
reduction. Those who fall behind in the  winner take all markets of
global competition not only  suffer from poverty and poor health, but
also lose access  to health care and other essential health-producing
services.
 
 Reversing these trends will require decisive and coordinated  action on
the part of high-income countries in areas we often  do not connect
with: debt cancellation, increased development  assistance, fair trade
policies and global tax reforms.  Ultimately, everyone should have the
opportunity to lead a  healthy life: it should be a basic human right.
 
 Table of Contents
 Prologue
 1. Introduction
 2. Globalization: From Trading Blankets to Global Warming
 3. Globalization's 'Poster Children'
 4. AIDS, Poverty, and the Poverty of Aid
 5. Debt, Aid, and Brain Drain
 6. Of Trade and Tortillas
 7. Globalization, Health and the World Trade Organization
 8. Globalization Comes Home to Roost
 9. Conclusion
 Afterword
 Endnotes
 References
 
About the Authors
Ronald Labonte is Canada Research Chair in Globalization/Health Equity
at the Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa. A public
health sociologist by predilection, he accrued 15 years of government
service and 10 years work as an international consultant in health
promotion and community empowerment before joining academia full-time in
1999. He is a founding member of the Canadian Coalition for Global
Health Research, a past board member of local, provincial, national and
international health associations in Canada, and a member of the
Peoples' Health Movement.

Ted Schrecker is a senior policy researcher at the Institute of
Population Health, University of Ottawa. A political scientist by
background, he has more than 20 years of professional experience as a
legislative researcher,  consultant and academic. His special interests
are in issues at the interface of science, ethics, law and public policy
and in causal pathways that link 
globalization with domestic social and economic policy by way of changes
in class structure and class allegiances.
 
 Amit Sen Gupta trained in medicine and works on issues related to
public  health and pharmaceuticals policy, on which he has lectured and
written  extensively. He is also involved in implementing rural
industrialization  programs in India through the Centre for Technology
and Development, is  Secretary of the All India Peoples Science Network,
and co-convenor of the  Peoples' Health Movement (India) and member of
the Movement's  International Steering Group.
 
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