Critical Perspectives in Public Health

Ronald Labonte is a Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Health Equity at the Institute of Population Health and Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Canada. Judith Green is Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK.

• Section 1: Introduction 1. Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Public Health in the Twenty-First Century Section 2: Unfair Cases: Social Inequalities in Health 2. Introduction 3. Social Capital and the Third Way in Public Health 4. Poverty, Policy and Pathogenesis: Economic Justice and Public Health 5. HIV Infection in Women: Social Inequalities as Determinants of Risk Section 3: Making Traces: Evidence for Practice and Evaluation 6. Introduction 7. Strong Theory, Flexible Methods: Evaluating Complex Community-Based Initiatives 8. Tackling Health Inequalities through Partnership Working: Learning from a Realistic Evaluation 9. Using Theory-Based Evaluation to Build Evidence-Based Health and Social Care Policy and Practice 10. Evaluating Evidence and Making Judgements of Study Quality: Loss of Evidence and Risks to Policy and Practice Decisions Section 4: Colonising Places: Public Health and Globalisation 11. Introduction 12. The Politics of Female Genital Surgery in Displaced Communities 13. International Governance and World Trade Organization (WTO) Reform 14. Medicine Keepers: Issues in Indigenous Health 15. Equity, Democracy and Globalisation Section 5: Edgy Spaces: Policy, Technology and the Public Health 16. Introduction 17. Moving Bodies: Injury, Disease and the Social Organisation of Space 18. Antibiotic Resistance: An Exemplary Case of Medical Nemesis 19. Introductions to Special Issue on Genetics 20. Passionate Epistemology, Critical Advocacy, and Public Health: Doing our Profession Proud

‘The introductory sections are excellent—thorough and analytical. The chapters are in the main very readable and thought-provoking, and an encouragement to the development of new and more critical thinking around some well-worn public health topics.’ - European Journal of Public Health