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by Edward O’Neil Jr, MD, 502 pages, ISBN 1-57947-772-0, Chicago, Ill, American Medical Association, 2006.

Ellie Click, MD, PhD, Reviewer

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2007;161(8):813-814.

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Simply put, this ambitious book for health professionals aims to explain the current disparate state of health in the world and provide guidance as to how it might be made different. I couldn't have read a better primer on my flight halfway around the world for my new job in Africa.

The book is divided into 2 sections: the first aimed at understanding disparities in global health and the second providing short biographies of health professionals who have challenged the status quo. Its companion book, A Practical Guide to Global Health Service, profiles organizations that place health service volunteers. Part 1 of Awakening Hippocrates, "Understanding Global Disparities in Health," explores poverty, both absolute and relative, and the effect it has on health. The reader is introduced to the idea of "structural violence": that the poor of the world have shorter, harder, and "sicker" . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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