Beholden: Religion, Global Health, and Human Rights

by Susan R. Holman

Book Overview

Winner of the 2016 Grawemeyer Award in Religion

Global health efforts today are usually shaped by two very different ideological approaches: a human rights-based approach to health and equity-often associated with public health, medicine, or economic development activities; or a religious or humanitarian "aid" approach motivated by personal beliefs about charity, philanthropy, missional dynamics, and humanitarian "mercy." The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199827761
• ISBN13: 9780199827763
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 8.3"