Sacrificing the WHO to the Highest Bidder

Theodore MacDonald, James Raftery (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2008
CRC Press (Verlag)
978-1-84619-252-4 (ISBN)

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This remarkable book offers enlightening reading for everyone interested in international law, human rights, global health, public health and health promotion. Public health and health promotion professionals, including international healthcare organisations, care agencies, and international charities will find the analysis illuminating. It is also of great interest to policy makers and shapers in communities and government, political activists and all those with an interest in equality and globalisation.

Theodore Macdonald, James Raftery

The UN – Its origins, problems and contradictions. Selling off the UN to neoliberalism. Privatisation of water – and the problems of sustainability. Dams and dambusters. WHO – accessory after the fact? The UN’s dalliance with nuclear power. Neoliberalism and the human right to health. Is the WHO mandate workable? Summary and recommendations.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.3.2008
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	771 g
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-84619-252-8 / 1846192528
ISBN-13	978-1-84619-252-4 / 9781846192524
Zustand	Neuware