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Awakening Hippocrates: A Primer on Health, Poverty and Global Service and A Practical Guide to Global Health Service are published by the American Medical Association, and released in March and April 2006. Both books aim to help health professionals better understand the reasons for global health disparities and inspire them to volunteer their services to those who are in need. |
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Awakening Hippocrates: A Primer on Health, Poverty, and Global Service adds a global perspective to eliminating disparities in health care. This resource examines the state of global health affairs and, through the author’s personal experience and research, illustrates the need for medical volunteering. The book explores how the rich world achieved its good health, and how it has tried to share this knowledge with those in developing countries. Going further, Awakening Hippocrates shows how the forces of disparity, like racism, sexism, trade imbalances, and infectious disease, among others, have kept change from the poor. Seven exemplary health professionals who have dedicated their lives to service are profiled. This primer outlines the reasons why health professionals are essential to affecting change in current global affairs. |
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A Practical Guide to Global Health Service profiles approximately 300 organizations that place health service volunteers. Each detailed profile includes concise descriptions, contact information, and practical information about length of service terms, personnel sought, areas served, and availability of funding, training, and room and board. The Guide addresses common obstacles such as fear, time and money constraints, and familial and work obligations. Additional chapters cover the essentials of preparation for service, like travel and safety guidelines, commonly encountered illnesses, pre-trip planning, keys to serving well, and culture.
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Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, wrote the Foreword to Awakening Hippocrates. Farmer is Professor at the Harvard Medical School, Director of the Program for Social Change, and a recipient of the AMA Nathan Davis International Award in Medicine. Rhena Schweitzer Miller, daughter of Nobel Prize winner, Albert Schweitzer, MD, wrote an endorsement, as did Jim Yong Kim, Robert Sparks, Tracy Kidder, Kathryn Johnson, and several others.
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For more information on Awakening Hippocrates: A Primer on Health, Poverty & Global Service and A Practical Guide to Global Health
Service, or for discounts on bulk purchases, call Amy Burgess at the American Medical Association at 312.464.5306 or email:
Amy.Burgess@ama-assn.org. To contact the author for presentations or interviews, see
www.omnimed.org, or write
ejoneil@omnimed.org. Both books can be viewed on-line and ordered through the website of the American Medical Association at
www.ama-assn.org /Go to the
Bookstore. Or call 1-800-621-8335 tool-free. There is a substantial discount available for AMA members. The books are also available on
www.amazon.com:Awakening Hippocrates: A Primer on Health, Poverty, and Global Service
and A Practical Guide to Global Health Service
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