Peace through health : how health professionals can work for a less violent world
- Title
- Peace through health : how health professionals can work for a less violent world / edited by Neil Arya and Joanna Santa Barbara.
- Published by
- Sterling, VA : Kumarian Press, 2008.
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- Description
- ix, 340 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Subject
- Contents
- Pt. I. Basic Concepts in Peace Through Health -- 1. Introduction / Joanna Santa Barbara and Neil Arya -- 2. History of Peace through Health / Simon Rushton -- 3. Setting the Role of the Health Sector in Context: Multi-track Peacework / Graeme MacQueen -- 4. Mechanisms of Peace through Health / Graeme MacQueen and Joanna Santa Barbara -- Pt. II. War and Its Impact on Human Health -- 5. The Health Effects of War / Victor W. Sidel and Barry S. Levy -- 6. Future Wars / Joanna Santa Barbara -- Pt. III. Values and Ethics in Peace Through Health -- 7. What Values Underlie Our Actions? / Graeme MacQueen -- 8. Human Rights / Lowell Ewert and Dabney Evans -- 9. Medical Ethics / Neil Arya -- 10. Respect for Culture / Maria Kett and Karen Trollope-Kumar -- 11. Speaking Truth to Power: Acting on Values, Ethics, and Rights in South Africa / Wendy Orr -- Pt. IV. Preparing to Act on Peace Through Health -- 12. Analyzing a Peace through Health Problem / Joanna Santa Barbara -- 13. Tools for Peace through Health Work -- Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment / Kenneth Bush -- Do No Harm / Marshall Wallace -- The Peacebuilding Filter / Anne Bunde-Birouste and Anthony Zwi -- 14. Dealing with Conflict / Joanna Santa Barbara -- 15. Epidemiology as a Tool for Interdisciplinary Peace and Health Studies / Rob Chase and Neil Arya -- Pt. V. Case Studies -- 16. Primary Prevention -- Preventing War by Weapons Limitation / Ian Maddocks -- Opposing Gun Violence in the United States / Katherine Kaufer Christoffel -- The Health Professional as Activist / Helen Caldicott -- Acting on Human Rights in Nepal / Khagendra Dahal and Sonal Singh -- Peace Education as Primary Prevention / Joanna Santa Barbara -- 17. Secondary Prevention -- Humanitarian Ceasefires / Neil Arya -- The Role of Medical Journals: bridges, an Israeli-Palestinian Public Health Magazine / Ambrogio Manenti -- Healing across the Divides: American Medical Peacebuilding in the Middle East / Norbert Goldfield -- A Model for Improving Mental Health in Palestine - An Alternative View on Peace and Health? / Hana Saab and Viet Nguyen-Gillham -- The Iraq Body Count Project: A Citizen Initiative in Response to Government Indifference and Inaction / John Sloboda and Hamit Dardagan -- Doctor as Witness: Opposing Economic Sanctions on Iraq (1990-2003) / Neil Arya -- 18. Tertiary Prevention -- Psychosocial Healing / Paula Gutlove -- Community-Based Rehabilitation / Will Boyce -- Butterfly Peace Garden: Healing War-Affected Children in Sri Lanka / Rob Chase -- The World Health Organization: Health as a Bridge for Peace / Neil Arya -- Pt. VI. Evaluation -- 19. Evaluation of Peace through Health Initiatives / Joanna Santa Barbara -- Pt. VII. Expanding the Bounds of Peace Through Health -- 20. Expanding the Bounds of Medical Peace Practice / Klaus Melf, Neil Arya and Caecilie Buhmann -- 21. Social Injustice and the Responsibility of Health-Care Workers: Observation, Assessment, Action / Evan Lyon, Jim Yong Kim and Paul Farmer -- 22. Living in Harmony with the Earth and with Each Other / John Last -- Pt. VIII. Special Topics -- 23. A Role for Emergency Humanitarian Aid Organizations in Peace? / Ann Duggan -- 24. Students and Peace through Health: Education, Projects, and Theory / Caecilie Buhmann and Andrew D. Pinto -- 25. Technology and Activism / Alex Rosen and Tarek Loubani -- 26. Educating Health Professionals in Peace / Neil Arya, Klaus Melf and Caecilie Buhmann -- Conclusion -- 27. Looking Ahead / Neil Arya and Joanna Santa Barbara.
- Owning institution
- Columbia University Libraries
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.