Global Health as an Ethical Enterprise

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Introduces the challenges of living an ethical life when conceived as an expression of compassion for distant strangers. Considers the organization of compassion into the multi-billion dollar political-economic enterprise of global health. Explores tensions between global health as an ethical enterprise and the political-economic realities of the high-income countries and multinational organizations that fund global health and support a vast development industry populated by thousands of non-governmental organizations, pharmaceutical and chemical corporations, and countless organizations dedicated to the advancement of medicine and health science. Fulfills global health ethics requirement.