Syllabus/achievement requirements

Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Yogan Plillay and Timothy H. Holtz: Textbook of International Health. Global Health in a Dynamic World, 2009. Oxford University Press. Third edition.

Online articles

Aradau C. (2004). The Perverse Politics of Four Letter Words: Risk and Pity in the Securitization of Human Trafficking. Millennium - Journal of International Studies 33: 251-278.

Barnett, J. and W. N. Adger (2007). Climate change, human security and violent conflict. Political Geography 26(1): 639-655.

Berry, N.S. (2008) Who's judging the quality of care? Indigenous Maya and the problem of 'not being attended'. Medical Anthropology 27 (2): 164-89

Birn, A. E. (2011). Small(pox) success? Cien Saude Colet 16(2): 591-597.

Das V., Das R.K,. Coutinho L. (2000) “Disease Control and Immunization. A sociologial enquiry”:http://www.jstor.org/pss/4408959 Economic and Political Weekly, 35, (8/9), Feb. 26.

Farmer, P. (2004). An anthropology of structural violence. Current Anthropology 45(3): 305-325.

Farmer, P. (2008). Mother courage and the future of war. Social Analysis 52(2): 165-184.

Fassin, D. (2001). "Culturalism as ideology. Cultural perspectives on reproductive health." in C. M. Obermeyer. Oxford, Oxford University Press: 300-318. (avaialble in Fronter)

Filippi, V., C. Ronsmans, et al. (2006). Maternal health in poor countries: the broader context and a call for action. Lancet 368(9546): 1535-1541.

Grundy, J. Country-level governance of global health initiatives: an evaluation of immunization coordination mechanisms in five countries of Asia. Health Policy Plan; 2010 May;25(3):186-96

Hardon, A. and S. Blume (2005). Shifts in global immunisation goals (1984-2004): unfinished agendas and mixed results. Soc Sci Med 60(2): 345-356.

Huynen, M. M., P. Martens, et al. (2005). The health impacts of globalization: a conceptual framework. Global Health 1: 14.

Irwin, A. and E. Scali (2007). Action on the social determinants of health: a historical perspective. Global Public Health 2(3): 235-256.

Janes, C. R. and O. Chuluundorj (2004). Free markets and dead mothers: the social ecology of maternal mortality in post-socialist Mongolia. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 18(2): 230-257.

Lakoff, A. (2010). Two Regimes of Global Health. Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism and Development 1(1): 59-79.

Marmot, M. (2007). Achieving health equity: from root causes to fair outcomes. Lancet 370(9593): 1153-1163.

Millard, W. B. (2010). Starting from scratch: Haiti's earthquake and disaster planning. Ann Emerg Med 55(5): 17A-22A.

Nordfeldt, C. and Roalkvam, S. (2010). Choosing vaccination: Negotiating child protection and good citizenship in modern India Forum for Development Studies. 37(3): 327- 347

Nguyen V-K, Peschard K. Anthropology, inequality and disease: A review Review of Anthropology. 2003;32:447-74.

Ottersen, O. P., J. Frenk, et al. (2011). The Lancet-University of Oslo Commission on Global Governance for Health, in collaboration with the Harvard Global Health Institute. Lancet 378(9803): 1612-1613.

Sandberg, K. I., S. Andresen, et al. (2010). A new approach to global health institutions? A case study of new vaccine introduction and the formation of the GAVI Alliance. Soc Sci Med 71(7): 1349-1356.

Storeng, K. T., S. F. Murray, et al. (2010). Beyond body counts: a qualitative study of lives and loss in Burkina Faso after 'near-miss' obstetric complications. Social Science & Medicine 71(10): 1749-1756.

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