ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 2|25 pages

Selling off the UN to neoliberalism

chapter 4|25 pages

Dams and dambusters

chapter 5|24 pages

WHO: accessory after the fact?

chapter 6|26 pages

The UN’s dalliance with nuclear power

chapter 8|29 pages

Is the WHO mandate workable?

chapter 9|21 pages

Summary and recommendations