International Health Policy/Book list available here

Books marked with an asterisk (*) are eligible for Assignment 1

• *Acemoglu D and Robinson J. (2012). Why Nations Fail: the origins of power, prosperity, and poverty. Crown Business, New York.
• Aginam O. (2005). Global Health Governance: International Law and Public Health in a Divided World. University of Toronto Press, Toronto.
• Beaglehole R and Bonita R. (Eds). (2009). Global Public Health: a new era. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• Bebbington A, Woolcock M, Guggenheim S, and Olson E. (ed). (2006). The Search for Empowerment: Social capital as idea and practice at the World Bank. Kumarian Press, Bloomfield.
• Beigbeder Y. (2004). International Public Health: Patients’ Rights and Protection of Patents. Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot.
• *Bloom G and Standing H.(Eds). (2008). Future Health Systems. Special issue of Social Science & Medicine. 66,10.
• *Blouin C, Spncer H, et al. (Eds). (2010. Trade, Food, Diet and Health: Perspectives and Policy Options. Blackwell Publications, Chichester, England.
• *Bolton G. (2008). Aid and Other Dirty Business. Ebury Press, UK.
• Bradford C and Linn J. (2007). Global Governance Reform: Breaking the Stalemate. Brookings Institution Press, Washington DC.
• *Brautigan D. (2009). The Dragon’s Gift: The real story of China in Africa. Oxford University Press, New York.
• *Brecher, J., Costello, T. & Smith, B. 2002. The power of social movements (and its secret). Globalization from below: the power of solidarity. Cambridge MA: South End Press.
• *Calderisi R. (2007). The Trouble with Africa: Why Foreign Aid isn’t Working. Palgrave Macmillan.
• *Camilleri J and Falk J. (2009). Worlds in Transition. Evolving Governance Across a Stressed Planet. Edward Elgar, Cheltnam.
• Castro A and Singer M. (Eds). (2004). Unhealthy Health Policy. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek.
• Chang HJ. (ed). (2002). Joseph Stiglitz and the World Bank: The Rebel Within. Wimbledon Publishing Company, London.
• Chen L, Leaning J, and Narasimhan V. (eds). (2003). Global Health Challenges for Human Security. Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
• *Chen, C. C. & Bunge, F. M. 1989. Medicine in rural China : a personal account, Berkeley, University of California Press.
• *Clark, J. (ed.) 2003. Globalizing civic engagement: civil society and transnational action, London & Sterling VA: Earthscan Publications.
• *Collier P. (2007). The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• *Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (2001). Macroeconomics and Health: Investing in Health for Economic Development. Geneva, WHO.
• *Commission on Social Determinants of Health (2008). Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity through Action on Social Determinants of Health. World Health Organization, Geneva.
• Cooper A & Kirton H. (2009). Innovation in Global Health Governance. Ashgate Publishing, Burlington.
• Cooper AF, Kirton JF, Schrecker T (Eds.). (2007). Governing global health: challenge, response, innovation. Aldershot, Hampshire.
• Diamond, J. (1998). Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years. Random House, London.
• Eade D. (1997). Capacity-Building: An Approach to People-Centred Development. Oxfam UK, Oxford.
• Eager PW. (2004). Global population policy: from population control to reproductive rights. Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot.
• *Easterly W. (2006). White Man’s Burden: why the West’s efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good. Penguin Press, New York.
• Evans T, Whitehead M, et al. (eds). (2001). Challenging Inequities in Health. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• Eyben R. (ed). (2006). Relationships for aid. Easthscan Publications, London.
• Farmer P. (2001). Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues. UC Press, Berkeley.
• *Farmer P. (2003). Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor. UC Press, Berkeley.
• Feachem R, Kjellstrom T, Murray C, Over M, and Phillips M (eds). (1992). The Health of Adults in the Developing World. Oxford University Press, NY.
• *Fidler D. (2004). SARS, Governance, and the Globalization of Disease. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.
• Foege WH, Daulaire N, Black R, and Pearson CE. (eds). (2005) Global Health Leadership and Management. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester.
• Fort MP, Mercer MA, and Gish O. (eds). (2004). Sickness and Wealth: The Corporate Assault on Global Health. South End Press, Cambridge.
• Friedman T. (1999). The Lexus and the Olive Tree. Harper Collins Publishers, London.
• *Garrett L. (2000). Betrayal of Trust: The collapse of global public health. Hyperion, New York.
• Galeano, E. Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking Glass World.
• Gauld R. (Ed). (2005). Comparative Health Policy in the Asia-Pacific. Open University Press, Maidenhead.
• Global Health Watch, 2005-2006. Zed Press, London.
• Global Health Watch II. Oct 2008. Overview at: http://www.ghwatch.org/ghw2/ghw2_outlineflyer_eng.pdf
• *Griffiths P. (2003). The economist's tale: a consultant encounters the World Bank. Zed Books, London.
• Hancock G. (1989). Lords of poverty: the power, prestige, and corruption of the international aid business. The Atlantic Monthly Press, New York.
• *Hawkes, C., Blouin, C., Henson, S., Drager, N. & Dubé, L. (eds.) 2010. Trade, food, diet and health: perspectives and policy options, Chichester: Blackwell.
• Hein W, Bartsch S, and Lohlmorgen L. (2007). Global Health Governance and the Fight Against HIV/AIDS. Palgrave Macmillan.
• Heymann J. (Ed). (2003). Global Inequalities at Work: Work’s impact on the health of individuals, families and societies. Oxford University Press, New York.
• Hu TW and Hsieh CR. (eds). (2002). The Economics of Health Care in Asia-Pacific Countries. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
• IOM (Institute of Medicine). (2009). The US Commitment to Global Health: Recommendations for the New Administration. National Academies Press, Washington DC.
• Jamison D, Breman J, Measham A, Alleyne G et al. (Eds). (2006). Priorities in Health. The World Bank, Washington DC.
• Jones NH.(1978). International Public Health between the Two World Wars - the organizational problems. WHO, Geneva.
• Lay A, and Williams D. (Eds). (2009). Global health governance: crisis, institutions, and political economy. Palgrave Macmillan, Houndsmills, England.
• Kim JY, Millen J, Irwin A, and Gershman J. (Eds). (2000). Dying for Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor. Common Courage Press, Monroe, Maine.
• Kiovusalo M & Ollila E. (1997). Making a Health World - Agencies, Actors & Policy in International Health. Zed Books, London.
• Labonte R. (2003). Dying for Health: Why Globalization can be Bad for our Health. CSJ Foundation for Research and Education, Toronto.
• *Labonte R, Schrecker T, Parker C, Runnels V. (2009). Globalization and Health: Pathways, Evidence, and Policy. Routledge, NY.
• Labonte R, Schrecker T, Sanders D, and Meeus W. (2004). Fatal indifference: the G8, Africa and global health. University of Cape Town Press/IDRC.
• *Langenbrunner J and Somanathan A. (2011). Financing Health Care in East Asia and the Pacific: Best Practices and Remaining Challenges. World Bank, Washington DC.
• Le Carre, J. (1995). The Constant Gardener. Scribner, New York.
• Lee K. (ed). (2003). Health Impacts of Globalization: Towards global governance. Palgrave Macmillan, Basginstoke.
• Lee K. (2009). World Health Organization. Routledge, Abingdon.
• Lee K, Buse K, and Fustukian S. (Eds). (2002). Health Policy in a Globalising World. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
• Lee K, and Collin J. (eds). (2001). Global Change and Health. Open University Press, Maidenhead.
• Lister, J. (2005). Health Policy Reform: Driving the Wrong Way? Middlesex University Press, London.
• Lofgren H, Leahy M, et al. (Eds). (2011). Democratising Health: Consumer Groups in the Policy Process. Edward Elgar, Aldershott, UK.
• MacDonald TH. (2009). Sacrificing the WHO to the Highest Bidder. Radcliffe Publishing, Oxford.
• Mackintosh M and Koivusalo M. (eds). (2005). Commercialization of health care: global and local dynamics and policy responses. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.
• McGillivray M and Clarke M. (eds). (2006). Understanding Human Wellbeing. UN University Press, Tokyo.
• McGrew A & Polu N. (2007). Globalization, Development and Human Security. Polity Press, Cambridge.
• McInnes C. (2005). Health, Security and the Risk Society. Nuffield Trust, London.
• McMurray C and Smith R. (2001). Diseases of Globalisation: Socioeconomic transitions and Health. Earthscan Publications, Ltd, London.
• Merson M, Black R, and Mills A. (Eds). (2001). International Public Health. Aspen Publishers, Gaithersburg.
• Michel S and Beuret M. (2009). China Safari: On the trail of Beijing’s expansion in Africa. Nation Books, New York.
• *Morton K. (2005). International Aid and China’s Environment: Taming the Yellow Dragon. Routledge, London.
• Moynihan R, Cassels A. (2005). Selling sickness: How drug companies are turning us all into patients. Allen & Unwin, Sydney.
• *Moyo D. (2009). Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working & How there is a Better Way for Africa. Farrar, Straus & Girouz, New York.
• Musgrove P. (ed). (2004). Health Economics in Development. The World Bank, Washington DC.
• Newbrander W. (Ed). (1997). Private Health Sector Growth in Asia. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester.
• Paku N and Whiteside A. (eds). (2004). Global Health and Governance. HIV/AIDS. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.
• Pan American Health Organization. (2001). Equity and Health: Views from the Pan American Sanitary Bureau. PAHO, Washington DC.
• Peabody JW, Rahman MO, Gertler PJ, Mann J, et al. (1999). Policy and Health: Implications for Development in Asia. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
• *Peters D, El-Saharty S, Siada JB, et al. (Eds). (2009). Improving Health Service Delivery in Developing Countries. World Bank, Washington DC.
• Preker AS and Carrin G. (Eds). (2004). Health Financing for Poor People. The World Bank, Washington DC.
• Preker AS. and Harding A. (Eds). (2003). Innovations in health service delivery: the corporatisation of public hospitals. The World Bank, Washington DC.
• Price-Smith A. (2002). The Health of Nations: Infectious disease, environmental change, and their effects on national security and development. MIT Press, Cambridge.
• Reich.M (Ed). (2002). Public-Private Partnerships for Public Health. Harvard Centre for Population and Development Studies, Cambridge.
• *Riddell R. (2007). Does Foreign Aid Really Work? Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• Sainath, P. (1996). Everybody loves a good drought. Penguin Books, New Delhi.
• *Sanjuan P. (2005). The UN Gang: A memoir of incompetence, corruption, espionage, anti-semitism, and Islamic extremism at the UN Secretariat. Doubleday, New York.
• *Sachs J. (2005). The End of Poverty: Economic possibilities for our times. Penguin Group, New York.
• *Sachs J. (2008). Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet. The Penguin Press, New York.
• *Scott J. (1998). Seeing like a State. Yale University Press, New Haven.
• *Sen A. (1999). Development as Freedom. Alfred A Knopf, New York.
• Siddiqi J. (1995).World Health and World Politics. Hurst & Co, London.
• Skolnik R. (2007). Essentials of Global Health. Jones & Bartlett Publishers,
• Smith R, Beaglehole R, Woodward D, and Drager N. (Eds). (2003). Global public goods for health. Oxford University Press, New York.
• Staples A. (2006). The Birth of Development: How the World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization, and World Health Organization have changed the World, 1945-65.
• *Stiglitz J. (2003). Globalization and its Discontents. WW Norton & Company, New York.
• *Stiglitz J. (2006). Making Globalization Work: The next step to global justice. Penguin Group, Melbourne.
• Suhrcke M, Rocco L, McKee M. (2007). Health: a vital investment for economic development in eastern Europe and central Asia. WHO (Euro), Copenhagen.
• Thakur R, Cooper A, and English J. (Eds). (2005). International Commissions and the Power of Ideas. UN University, Tokyo.
• *Thompson, L. & Tapscott, C. 2010. Citizenship and social movements: perspectives from the global South, London, Zed Books.
• Thompson L and Tapscott C. (2010). Citizenship and social movements: perspectives from the global South. Zed Books, London.
• Transparency International. (2006). Global Corruption Report: Corruption and Health. Pluto Press, Ann Arbor.
• *UN DESA. (2011). The global social crisis: report on the world situation 2011. United Nations, NY.
• UN Millennium Project. (2005). Investing in Development. A Practical Plan to Achieve Millennium Development Goals. Earthscan Publishing, London.
• United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (1995). States of disarray: the social effects of globalisation. UNRISD, London.
• Wamala S and Kawachi I. (Eds). (2007). Globalisation and Health. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• Weir L and Mykhalovskiy E. (2010). Global Public Health Vigilance: Creating A World On Alert. Routledge.
• Werna E, Harpham T, Blue I, and Goldstein G. (1998). Healthy city projects in developing countries. Eathscan Publications Ltd, London.
• Werner D and D. Sanders D. (1997). Questioning the solution: the politics of primary health care and child survival. Healthwrights, Palo Alto.
• Whiteford L and Manderson L. (Eds). (2000). Global Health Policy, Local Realities: The Fallacy of the Level Playing Field. Lynne Rienner Publishsers, Boulder.
• WHO Watch (2011). http://www.ghwatch.org/who-watch
• *Wilkinson R and Pickett K. (2009). The Spirit Level: why more equal socieities almost always do better. Penguin, London.
• Wolf M. (2004). Why Globalisation Works. Yale University Press, New Haven.
• World Bank Group (1999). Social capital for Development. The World Bank, Washington DC.
• *World Bank (1993). World Development Report: Investing in health. The World Bank, Washington.
• World Health Organization. (2006). SARS: How a global epidemic was stopped. WHO (WPRO), Manila.
• World Health Organization. (2000). World Health Report. WHO, Geneva.
• Yunus M. (2007). Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism. Public Affairs, New York.
• Zacher M and Keefe T. (2008). Politics of Global Health Governance: United by contagion. Palgrave Macmillan.