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You are here > Home > Reading Lists > Practice Management & Medical Leadership > Awakening Hippocrates: A Primer on Health, Poverty, and Global Service Awakening Hippocrates: A
Primer on Health, Poverty, and Global Service Softbound, 542 pages
Beginning with an in-depth examination of the state of global health, the author draws on his personal experience to illustrate the enormous impact that health professionals can have in changing the future of health care. Awakening Hippocrates also profiles seven exemplary health professionals who have dedicated their lives to service and are a source of inspiration to those interested in medical volunteering. Awakening Hippocrates takes aim on helping health professionals better understand the reasons for global health disparities. This compelling primer encourages medical professionals to take interest in world health issues. It outlines the reasons why health professionals are essential to affecting change in current global affairs and how they can participate in serving those who are in need. You can view excerpts of this book here. "Few books have mastered such a breadth of complex issues and done so in such clear and readily understandable prose. ...essential reading for every medical student and resident in the country, as well as anyone else who cares enough to address directly the health inequalities that plague so much of humanity." - Robert Sparks, MD, Dean Emeritus Tulane University School of Medicine, President Emeritus and Senior Consultant for the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, former Chancellor of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, member Institute of Medicine. "...written with impressive knowledge and with the compassion of a medical doctor who has worked in the poorest countries of the world and whose life has been marked by the miseries he has come across. This book is a moving and pressing appeal to all people of good will." - Rhena Schweitzer Miller, former director of the Schweitzer-Bresslau Hospital in Lambarene, Gabon, and daughter of Albert Schweitzer, MD "These two books (Awakening Hippocrates and A Practical Guide to Global) should comprise an important tool in what I hope will be a genuine global movement both to understand and to remedy the great disparities in global health that afflict our times." - Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer-prize winning author of Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World "All health professionals should read this book: there may be no clearer mission for the medical profession today. This book should inspire a revolution within the health profession, in which international health becomes a staple of every medical school. It is a clarion call for action that will ultimately change our world." - Jim Yong Kim, MD, Co-Director of the Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change at the Harvard Medical School, Chair of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights and the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities, Harvard Medical School "...gives individuals direct opportunities to provide medical care and education in countries with large populations of the poor and medically underserved. These two books (A Practical Guide to Global and Awakening Hippocrates) should become essential reading for every medical student and resident in the country, as well as anyone else who cares enough to address directly the health inequalities that plague so much of humanity." - Robert Sparks, MD, Dean Emeritus Tulane University School of Medicine, President Emeritus and Senior Consultant for the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, former Chancellor of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, member Institute of Medicine. Robert Sparks, MD, is the Dean Emeritus of Tulane University School of Medicine, President Emeritus and Senior Consultant for the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, former Chancellor of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and member of the Institute of Medicine. (information from the publisher) You may also be interested in / The Directory of Healthcare Recruiters / Jump to a List / Health Administration & Leadership / Physician Executive, Medical Staff & Practice Management / Finance, Accounting, Economics, Billing & Reimbursement / Coding for Hospital, Physician & Clinical Services / Law, Malpractice, Ethics, Accreditation & Compliance / Quality Improvement, Outcomes & Customer Service / Risk Management, Security, Error Reduction & Patient Safety / Information Systems, Technology & Medical Records / Clinical Management & Executive Nursing / Behavioral Health, Social Work & Psychiatry Management / Human Resources, Management & Supervision / Directories, Data, Trends & Benchmarks / Software & CD-ROMs / Gift Ideas & Recommended Gifts / Journals, Magazines & Newsletters / Search for Books / Books Index / Go to / Home Page / Toolbox for Health Administrators / Bookstore |
