Oxford Handbook of Global Health Politics

Name: Oxford Handbook of Global Health Politics
Brand: OXFORD UNIV PR
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By Colin Mcinnes

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Protecting and promoting health is inherently a political endeavor that requires a sophisticated understanding of the distribution and use of power. Yet while the global nature of health is widely recognized, its political nature is less well understood. In recent decades, the interdisciplinary field of global health politics has emerged to demonstrate the interconnections of health and core political topics, including foreign and security policy, trade, economics, and development. Today a growing body of scholarship examines how the global health landscape has both shaped and been shaped by political actors and structures. The Oxford Handbook of Global Health Politics provides an authoritative overview and assessment of research on this important and complicated subject. The volume is motivated by two arguments. First, health is not simply a technical subject, requiring evidence-based solutions to real-world problems, but an arena of political contestation where norms, values, and interests also compete and collide. Second, globalization has fundamentally changed the nature of health politics in terms of the ideas, interests, and institutions involved. The volume comprises more than 30 chapters by leading experts in global health and politics. Each chaper provides an overview of the state of the art on a given theoretical perspective, major actor, or global health issue. The Handbook offers both an excellent introduction to scholars new to the field and also an invaluable teaching and research resource for experts seeking to understand global health politics and its future directions.

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Number of Pages:: 750
Release Date:: 2020-01-27
Publication Date:: 2020-01-27
Publisher:: OXFORD UNIV PR
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0190456817
ISBN13:: 9780190456818
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 1450 g
Height:: 17.5 cm
Width:: 25 cm
Thickness:: 4.4 cm

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