Includes bibliographical references and index.

Global Health, definitions and descriptions: what is global health? -- The state of global health in a radically unequal world: patterns and prospects -- Addressing the societal determinants of health: the key global health ethics imperative of our times -- Gender and global health: inequality and differences -- Heath systems and health -- Global health ethics, responsibilities and justice: some central issues: is there a need for global health ethics? for and against -- Justice, infectious disease and globalization -- International health inequalities and global justice: toward a middle ground -- The human right to health -- Responsibility for global health? -- Global health ethics: the rationale for mutual caring -- Analyzing some reasons for poor health: trade and health: the ethics of global rights, regulation and redistribution -- Debt, structural adjustment and health -- The international arms trade and global health -- Allocating resources in humanitarian medicine -- International aid and global health -- Climate change and health: risks and inequities -- Animals, the environment and global health -- The global crisis and global health -- Shaping the future: The Health Impact Fund: how to make new medicines accessible to all -- Biotechnology and global health -- Food security and global health -- International taxation -- Global health research: changing the agenda -- Justice and research in developing countries -- Values in global health governance -- Poverty, distance and two dimensions of ethics -- Teaching global health ethics -- Towards a new common sense: the need for new paradigms of global health.

This interdisciplinary text discusses the state of global health and the challenges we face in trying to improve it, and offers innovative proposals for change.