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When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health by João Biehl
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“Global health players can become impervious to critique as they identify emergencies, cite dire statistics, and act on their essential duty of promoting health in the name of "humanitarian reason" or as an instrument of economic development, diplomacy, or national security. We are left, however, with an open-source anarchy around global health problems--a policy space in which new strategies, rules, distributive schemes, and the practical ethics of health care are being assembled, experimented with, and improvised by a wide array of deeply unequal stakeholders”
João Biehl, When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health