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IJE Advance Access originally published online on September 19, 2006
International Journal of Epidemiology 2006 35(5):1370-1373; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl204
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2006; all rights reserved.

Book Review

Third World Health: Hostage to First World Wealth. Théodore H. MacDonald, Radcliffe, Oxford. 2005 £35. ISBN 1 85775 769 6

DAVIDSON R GWATKIN

E-mail: dgwatkin@comcast.net

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The title says it all. Dr MacDonald's volume is dedicated to advancing the proposition that the First World is the principal force behind the poor health conditions so often found in the Third World. ‘There are many causes why a sizeable proportion of the world's people are in significantly worse health than the rest of us’, he says in the opening paragraph, "but the most obvious has to do with international trade and the globalization of the US dollar. I argue that the huge discrepancies in health status between ‘wealthy’ and ‘poor’ nations are the cause of what I call ‘trade-related illnesses’."(MacDonald, p. 1) In his view, the health of people in the Third World ‘is forfeit to the wealth of our banks and corporations’(MacDonald, p. 2).

Dr MacDonald marshals evidence to support this proposition in several steps. A pair of introductory chapters sets the stage by outlining the nature . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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