Globalization and Health

This collection of essays analyzes the complex linkages between globalization and health, the health effects of globalization at all levels (global, national, and local), and the policy and institutional responses associated with the health consequences of globalization.

About the author

Richard L. Harris, is Professor of Global Studies and World Languages and Cultures at California State University, Monterey Bay. He has written extensively on political, economic and social issues in Africa, Asia and Latin America as well as on globalisation, revolutionary change, socialism and democracy. He is a coordinating editor of Latin American Perspectives and the editor of the Journal of Developing Societies.

Melinda J. Seid, Ph.D., is Professor at the Department of Kinesiology and Health at California State University, Sacramento. She is a specialist in health administration and program evaluation and has researched, consulted and written on various health issues in the United States, the Russian Far East and Cuba. Harris and Seid are the editors of a previous Brill publication entitled Critical Perspectives on Globalization and Neoliberalism in the Developing Countries (Brill, 2000).

Product details

• Assisted by: R. L. Harris (Editor), Richard Harris (Editor), M. J. Seid (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.09.2004
• EAN: 9789004141452
• ISBN: 978-90-04-14145-2
• No. of pages: 276
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 242 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 413 g
• Series: International Studies in Socio
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories