Global health in times of violence / edited by Barbara Rylko-Bauer, Linda Whiteford, and Paul Farmer.

Santa Fe : School for Advanced Research Press, [2009]

ix, 288 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Prologue : coming to terms with global violence and health / Barbara Rylko-Bauer, Linda Whiteford, and Paul Farmer -- Recognizing invisible violence : a thirty-year ethnographic retrospective / Philippe Bourgois -- "Landmine Boy" and the tomorrow of violence / Paul Farmer -- Fault lines / Carolyn Nordstrom -- Failure to protect, failure to provide : refugee reproductive rights / Linda Whiteford -- A violence of history : accounting for AIDS in post-apartheid South Africa / Didier Fassin -- Desperate measures : a syndemic approach to the anthropology of health in a violent city / Merrill Singer -- The vicissitudes of structural violence : Nicaragua at the turn of the twenty-first century / James Quesada -- Planting "seeds of health" in the fields of structural violence : the life and death of Francisco Curruchiche / H.K. Heggenhougen -- Medicine in the political economy of brutality : reflections from the Holocaust and beyond / Barbara Rylko-Bauer -- Epilogue : global health in times of violence--finding hope / Linda Whiteford, Barbara Rylko-Bauer, and Paul Farmer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.