Includes articles which offer an alternative view of the political and economic causes of substandard health care in the underdeveloped societies of the Third World.
Introduction: The Nature of Imperialism and Its Implications in Health
and Medicine
Vicente Navarro
PART 1: The Political and Economic Determinants of the Underdevelopment of
Health and Health Services
The Underdevelopment of Health or the Health of Underdevelopment: An
Analysis of the Distribution of Human Health Resources in Latin America
Vicente Navarro
Human Rights, Health, and Capital Accumulation in the Third World
Michel Chossudovsky
The Economic and Political Determinants of Human (Including Health) Rights
Vicente Navarro
Drought and Dependence in the Sahel
Nicole Ball
PART 2: U.S. Foundations, U.S. Foreign Policy and International Health
Foreign Intervention in Medical Education: A Case Study of the Rockefeller
Foundation's Involvement in a Thai Medical School
PeterJ. Donaldson
Nutrition, Development, and Foreign Aid: A Case Study of U.S. Directed
Health Care in a Columbian Plantation Zone
Michael Taussig
Community Medicine Under Imperialism: A New Medical Police?
Jaime Breilh
PART 3: Critiques of Malthusian and Neo-Malthusian Population Theories and
Their Political Function
Population Growth--A Menace to What?
Erland Hofsten
An Historical Sketch of the American Population Control Movement
Bonnie Mass
PART 4: Corporate Power and Underdevelopment
Industrialization and Occupational Health in Underdeveloped Countries
Ray H. Elling
Breast-Feeding: The Role of Multinational Corporations Latin America
Michael B. Bader
The Political Economy of Controlling Transnationals: The Pharmaceutical
Industry in Sri Lanka, 1972-1976
Sanjaya Lall and Senaka Bibile
Contributors
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