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.