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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In the Foreword to Awakening Hippocrates, Dr Paul Farmer wrote, "We at last have, in this moving book and in a companion volume, an authoritative overview that allows the reader to understand not only how poverty and inequality shorten lives in a time of medical miracles but also what can be done about it... I know of no other project that has been able to link such sound analysis to the pragmatic advice that all of need as we ask and answer (sometimes without ever learning the lessons of those who've gone before us) the what's-to-be-done question.”