When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health

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When People Come First critically assesses the expanding field of global health. It brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to address the medical, social, political, and economic dimensions of the global health enterprise through vivid case studies and bold conceptual work. The book demonstrates the crucial role of

Joao Biehl is the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. He is the author of "Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment" and "Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival" (Princeton). Adriana Petryna is the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of "Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl" and "When Experiments Travel: Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects" (both Princeton).

"When People Come First would be a valuable accessory in any global health practitioner's toolkit, and essential reading for global health students."--Jocalyn Clark, PLoS Speaking of Medicine blog