Power and Priorities: The Growing Pains of Global Health; Comment on "Knowledge, Moral Claims and the Exercise of Power in Global Health"
Shiffman has argued that some actors have a great deal of power in global health, and that more reflection is needed on whether such forms of power are legitimate. Global health is a new and evolving field that builds upon the historical fields of public and international health, but is more multi-d...
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Kerman University of Medical Sciences,
2015-05-01T00:00:00Z.
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| Summary: | Shiffman has argued that some actors have a great deal of power in global health, and that more reflection is needed on whether such forms of power are legitimate. Global health is a new and evolving field that builds upon the historical fields of public and international health, but is more multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary in nature. This article argues that the distribution of power in some global health institutions may be limiting the contributions of all researchers in the field |
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| Item Description: | 10.15171/ijhpm.2015.48 2322-5939 2322-5939 |