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CONTENTS Acknowledgements List of figures List of table Preface INTRODUCTION From critique to engagement: why critical public health matters Judith Green and Ronald Labont¿ SECTION 1: UNFAIR CASES: SOCIAL INEQUALITIES IN HEALTH Introduction Ronald Labont¿, John Frank and Erica Di Ruggiero Chapter 1 Inequalities in health in developing countries: challenges for public health research Mickey Chopra Chapter 2 Social capital and the third way in public health Carles Muntaner, John Lynch and George Davey Smith Chapter 3 HIV infection in women: social inequalities as determinants of risk Sally Zierler and Nancy Krieger Chapter 4 Poverty, policy and pathogenesis: economic justice and public health in the US David G. Whiteis SECTION 2: MAKING TRACES: EVIDENCE FOR PRACTICE AND EVALUATION Introduction Nina Wallerstein Chapter 5 Strong theory, flexible methods: evaluating complex community based initiatives Linda Bauld and Ken Judge Chapter 6 Developing community and agency engagement in an action research study in South Wales Martin O?Neill and Gareth Williams Chapter 7 How useful are trials of public health interventions? An examination of two trials of HIV prevention. Chris Bonell Chapter 8 Understanding and improving the health of workers in the new economy: A call for a participatory dialogue based approach to work-health research Michael Polanyi, Tom McIntosh and Agnieszka Kosny SECTION 3: COLONISING PLACES: PUBLIC HEALTH AND GLOBALISATION Introduction Ronald Labont¿ Chapter 9 Globalisation and health Maureen Larkin Chapter 10 Interrogating globalization, health and development: towards a comprehensive framework for research, policy and political action Ronald Labont¿ and Ren¿e Torgerson Chapter 11 Medicine keepers: issues in indigenous health Lori Lambert and Eberhard Wenzel Chapter 12 The politics of female genital cutting in displaced communities Pascale Allotey, Lenore Manderson and Sonia Grover SECTION 4: EDGY SPACES: TECHNOLOGY, THE ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH Introduction Judith Green Chapter 13 Antibiotic resistance: an exemplary case of medical nemesis Charlotte Humphrey Chapter 14 Genetics, governance and ethics Robin Bunton and Alan Peterson Chapter 15 Moving bodies: injury, dis-ease and the social organization of space Peter Freund and George Martin Chapter 16 Epidemic space Joost Van Loon
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Public health -- Social aspects.
Social medicine.
Equality -- Health aspects.
Globalization -- Health aspects.
Public Health -- ethics.
Consumer Participation.
Health Policy.
Health Services Accessibility.
World Health.