Social sector

Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor

Author: 
Farmer, Paul, with a Foreword by Amartya Sen
Publisher: 
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003, 402 pp.
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reviewed by

Claudio Schuftan

Ho Chi Minh City

In English only

AIDS in the Twenty-first Century: Disease and Globalization

Author: 
Barnett, Tony and Alan Whiteside
Publisher: 
Basingstoke and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, ISBN: 1 4 39 9996 X, 416 pp.
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reviewed by

Catherine Campbell

Social Psychology Department, LSE, London

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Rural Poverty, Risk and Development

Author: 
Fafchamps, Marcel
Publisher: 
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2004, ISBN: 1 84376 436 9, 288 pp.
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reviewed by

Michael Lipton

Poverty Research Unit at Sussex, University of Sussex, UK

In English only

Moving Mountains: The Race to Treat Global AIDS

Author: 
D'Adesky, Anne-Christine
Publisher: 
London and New York, NY: Verso, 2004, ISBN: 184467 002 3, 487 pp.
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reviewed by

Sue Holden

Honorary Research Associate, Lancaster University, UK

In Eglish only

Alfabetização Cultural: a luta íntima por uma nova humanidade

Author: 
Baron, Dan
Publisher: 
São Paulo: Alfarrabio Editora (editora@alfarrabio.com.br), 2004, ISBN: 85 89147 02 9 431 pp.
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reviewed by

Mike Powell, Management Consultant, UK

In English only

Willing Slaves: How the Overwork Culture is Ruling our Lives

Author: 
Bunting, Madeleine
Publisher: 
London: Harper Perennial, 2005, ISBN: 0 00716372 X, 368 pp
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Reviewed by Deborah Eade, Editor-in-Chief, Development in Practice

In English only

City Futures: Confronting the Crisis of Urban Development

Author: 
Pieterse, Peter
Publisher: 
London: Zed Books, 2008, ISBN: 1 84277 541 7, 206 pp
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Reviewed by Mona Luxion Oxford Brookes University Oxford, UK

In English only

Defending Our Dreams: Global Feminist Voices for a New Generation

Author: 
Wilson, Shamillah, Segupta Anasuya and Kirsty Evans
Publisher: 
London & New York: Zed Books & AWID, 2005, ISBN: 1 84277 727 0, 254 pp
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Reviewed by Alvarez-Manzano, Yessica

Fawcett Society, London

In English only

Public Health and Human Rights: Evidence-based Approaches

Author: 
Beyrer, Chris and H. F. Pizer (eds.)
Publisher: 
Baltimore, MD, The John Hopkins University Press, 2007, ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-8647-8, 470 pp
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Reviewed by Professor Nana K Poku, John Ferguson Professor of Global Health and Politics Director of Research, Peace Studies, Bradford, UK

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A World Turned Upside Down: Social Ecological Approaches to Children in War Zones

Author: 
Boothby, Neil, Alison Strang, and Michael Wessels (eds.)
Publisher: 
Kumarian Press, Bloomfield, CT, 2006, ISBN-10: 1-56749-225-0, 260 pp.
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Reviewed by Rob Chase Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Canada

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