Includes articles which offer an alternative view of the political and economic causes of substandard health care in the underdeveloped societies of the Third World.
•Introduction: The Nature of Imperialism and Its Implications in Health and MedicineVicente NavarroPART 1: The Political and Economic Determinants of the Underdevelopment of Health and Health Services•The Underdevelopment of Health or the Health of Underdevelopment: An Analysis of the Distribution of Human Health Resources in Latin AmericaVicente Navarro •Human Rights, Health, and Capital Accumulation in the Third WorldMichel Chossudovsky •The Economic and Political Determinants of Human (Including Health) RightsVicente Navarro •Drought and Dependence in the SahelNicole BallPART 2: U.S. Foundations, U.S. Foreign Policy and International Health•Foreign Intervention in Medical Education: A Case Study of the Rockefeller Foundation's Involvement in a Thai Medical SchoolPeterJ. Donaldson •Nutrition, Development, and Foreign Aid: A Case Study of U.S. Directed Health Care in a Columbian Plantation ZoneMichael Taussig •Community Medicine Under Imperialism: A New Medical Police?Jaime BreilhPART 3: Critiques of Malthusian and Neo-Malthusian Population Theories and Their Political Function•Population Growth--A Menace to What?Erland Hofsten •An Historical Sketch of the American Population Control MovementBonnie MassPART 4: Corporate Power and Underdevelopment•Industrialization and Occupational Health in Underdeveloped CountriesRay H. Elling •Breast-Feeding: The Role of Multinational Corporations Latin AmericaMichael B. Bader •The Political Economy of Controlling Transnationals: The Pharmaceutical Industry in Sri Lanka, 1972-1976Sanjaya Lall and Senaka Bibile •Contributors
