Syllabus

The online articles are accessible to UiO students, but you need to use a computer which is Connected to the UiO network. If you are off campus, please read how to log on here. The online articles will also be available electronically on Fronter shortly before the commencement of the course.

Books

Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Yogan Plillay and Timothy H. Holtz (2009). Textbook of International Health. Global Health in a Dynamic World, Oxford University Press. Third edition. (Chapters 1,4 and 9)

Sidsel Roalkvam, Desmond McNeill, and Stuart Blume (ed.) (2013). Protecting the World's Children. Immunisation policies and Practices, Oxford University Press, (Chapters 1,2,5 and 6)

 

Online articles

Berry, N.S. (2008) Who's judging the quality of care? Indigenous Maya and the problem of 'not being attended' Medical Anthropology 27 (2): 164-89

Birn, A. E. (2005). "Gates's grandest challenge: transcending technology as public health ideology." Lancet 366(9484): 514-519.

Birn, A. E. (2011). Small(pox) success? Cien Saude Colet 16(2): 591-597.

Brown, T. M., M. Cueto and E. Fee (2006). "The World Health Organization and the transition from "international" to "global" public health." American Journal of Public Health 96(1): 62-72.

Buse, K. and A. M. Harmer (2007). "Seven habits of highly effective global public-private health partnerships: practice and potential." Social Science & Medicine 64(2): 259-271.

Closser, S. (2011). "“We Can't Give Up Now”: Global Health Optimism and Polio Eradication in Pakistan." Medical Anthropology 31(5): 385-403.

Fassin, D (2012). That Obscure Object of Global Health, in Medical Anthropology at the Intersections. Histories, Activism, and Futures, Marcia Inhorn and Emily Wenzel eds., Durham: Duke University Press, p. 95-115.

Fassin, D. (2001). Culturalism as ideology. Cultural perspectives on reproductive health. C. M. Obermeyer. Oxford, Oxford University Press: 300-318.

Frenk,J., Gómez-Dantés, O and Moon, S.J. et al (2014). From sovereignty to solidarity: a renewed concept of global health for an era of complex interdependence. Lancet; Vol 383: 94–97

Global Health Watch 3 (2011). An Alternative World Health Report.  Introduction.

Hazarika I.  (2009) "Medical tourism: its potential impact on the health workforce and health systems in India" in Health Policy and Planning. 25:248-251

Irwin, A. and E. Scali (2007). Action on the social determinants of health: a historical perspective. Global Public Health 2(3): 235-256.

Janes, C. R. and O. Chuluundorj (2004). Free markets and dead mothers: the social ecology of maternal mortality in post-socialist Mongolia. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 18(2): 230-257. 27s

Kapilashrami, A. and O. O'Brien (2012). "The Global Fund and the re-configuration and re-emergence of 'civil society': widening or closing the democratic deficit?" Global Public Health 7(5): 437-451.

Pfeiffer, J. (2004). International NGOs in the Mozambique health sector: the "velvet glove" of privatization. Unhealthy health policy: a critical anthropological evaluation. A. Castro and M. Singer. Walnut Creek, California, AltaMira Press: 43-62.

Pocock NS. and Phua KH. (2011) "Medical tourism and policy implications for health systems: a conceptual framework from a comparative study of Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia" in Globalization and Health. 7:12

Sarojini, N., Marwah, V. and  Shenoi A. (2011) "Globalisation of birth markets: a case study of assisted reproductive technologies in India" in Globalization and Health. 7:27

Storeng, K. T. and Béhague, D. P. (2014), “Playing the Numbers Game”: Evidence-Based Advocacy and the Technocratic Narrowing of the Safe Motherhood Initiative" in Medical Anthropology Quarterly.

Storeng, K. T., S. F. Murray, M. S. Akoum, F. Ouattara and V. Filippi (2010). "Beyond body counts: a qualitative study of lives and loss in Burkina Faso after 'near-miss' obstetric complications." Social Science & Medicine 71(10): 1749-1756.

The Lancet—University of Oslo Commission on Global Governance for Health (2014). The political origins of health inequity: prospects for change.

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