Rethinking Global Health: Frameworks of Power

Global health means a wide variety of things to different people.To Professor Rochelle Burgess, it is largely defined by power.Yet in the first paragraph of the book, she points out that even power lacks a single definition.So, for me, an inquiry into power is the only way to answer questions at the heart of global health inquiry: why do some bodies survive, and some don't? -(p. xv)In the introduction, the author defines global health-in its purest idealism-as a discipline that exists to respond to struggles faced by individuals, families, and communities.However, global health has become fashionable and has attracted significant financial resources, which have not benefited its original mission.