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Description for Beholden
Num Pages: 312 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAC; HRAM1; HRLP5; MBNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 151 x 29. Weight in Grams: 442.
Global health-related efforts today are usually shaped by two very different ideological approaches. They either reflect a human rights-based approach to health and equity, often associated with public health, medicine, or economic development activities; or they express religious or humanitarian "aid," usually motivated by personal beliefs about charity, philanthropy, missional dynamics, and/or a ministry of "mercy." The underlying differences between these two approaches can create tensions and even outright hostility that affects and may even undermine the best intentions of those involved. In Beholden: Religion, Global Health, and Human Rights, Susan R. Holman-a scholar in both religion and the history ... Read more
Global health-related efforts today are usually shaped by two very different ideological approaches. They either reflect a human rights-based approach to health and equity, often associated with public health, medicine, or economic development activities; or they express religious or humanitarian "aid," usually motivated by personal beliefs about charity, philanthropy, missional dynamics, and/or a ministry of "mercy." The underlying differences between these two approaches can create tensions and even outright hostility that affects and may even undermine the best intentions of those involved. In Beholden: Religion, Global Health, and Human Rights, Susan R. Holman-a scholar in both religion and the history ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199827763
SKU
V9780199827763
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Ref
99-21
About Susan R. Holman
Research writer and editor, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health; Managing editor of Health and Human Rights: An International Journal; author of The Hungry Are Dying: Beggars and Bishops in Roman Cappadocia (OUP 2001, cl 504 sold), and God Knows There's Need: Christian Responses to Poverty(OUP 2009, cl 866 sold)
Reviews for Beholden
Beholden is a rich tapestry of stories deftly woven into a textured examination of religious faith and global health work. The meanings we give to charity, justice, human rights, obligations, and respect- and their material effects- come alive in threads plaited across time and place. Beholden invites us to deepen the moral integrity of global health relations; it should be ... Read more