December 2nd:
Philosophical Frameworks of Global Health: A Case Study
What happens when health as a human right is at odds with public health and security?
Articles:
1. Title: Limitations on Human Rights: are they justifiable to reduce the burden of TB in the era of MDR- and XDR-TB?
Author: Andrea Boggio et al.
Summary: Because TB is a serious threat to public health and security, compulsory medical measures should be allowed as a last resort.
2. Title: Limitations on Human Rights in the Context of DR-TB: a reply to Boggio et al. Pgs. 1-5
Author: Joseph J. Amon et al.
Summary: Human rights should not be limited in TB policies because it easily leads to inhuman treatment of TB patients.
Chapter & Partner Spotlight: Columbia and Gulu Women's Economic Development and Globalisation Group
November 18th: Philosophical Frameworks of Global Health: The Policies and Politics
Articles:
1. Title: The Danish Healthcare System
Author: Karsten Vrangbaek
2. Title: Healthcare as a commodity/health as a human right: Managed care or managed inequality?
Authors: Paul Farmer and Barbara Rylko-Bauer
November 11th: Infectious Diseases
Malaria sickens "300 million every year, and kills nearly 1 million, despite the fact that we've known how to cure it (with parasite-killing drugs) and prevent it (by avoiding mosquito bites) for over a century"
-Sonia Shah
Articles:
1. Title: The Tenacious Buzz of Malaria
Author: Sonia Shah
Summary: Malaria has persisted for thousands of years because we have consistently underestimated it.
2. Title: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases: A Global Problem
Source: ActionBioscience.org, May 2004
Summary: An interview with Stephen S. Morse.
