Critical perspectives in public health / edited by Judith Green and Ronald Labonté.

London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.

xiv, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes revised articles from the journal Critical public health.

Inequalities in health in developing countries : challenges for public health research / Mickey Chopra -- Social capital and the third way in public health / Carles Muntaner, John Lynch & George Davey Smith -- HIV infection in women : social inequalities as determinants of risk / Sally Zierler & Nancy Krieger -- Poverty, policy and pathogenesis : economic justice and public health in the USA / David G. Whiteis -- Strong theory, flexible methods : evaluating complex community based initiatives / Linda Bauld & Ken Judge -- Developing community and agency engagement in an action research study in South Wales / Martin O'Neill & Gareth Williams -- How useful are trials of public health interventions? : an examination of two trials of HIV prevention / Chris Bonell -- 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 & Agnieszka Kosny -- Globalisation and health / Maureen Larkin -- Interrogating globalisation, health and development : towards a comprehensive framework for research, policy and political action / Ronald Labonté & Renée Torgerson -- Medicine keepers : issues in indigenous health / Lori Lambert & Eberhard Wenzel -- The politics of female genital cutting in displaced communities / Pascale Allotey, Lenore Manderson & Sonia Grover -- Antibiotic resistance : an exemplary case of medical nemesis / Charlotte Humphrey -- Genetics, governance and ethics / Robin Bunton & Alan Peterson -- Moving bodies : injury, dis-ease and the social organisation of space / Peter Freund & George Martin -- Epidemic space / Joost Van Loon.

Includes bibliographical references and index.