Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 14:27:11 -0500 (EST)
From: William Magee <magee@chass.utoronto.ca>
To: MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY <MedSoc@csf.colorado.edu>
Subject: any undergrad accessible resources on "third world medicine/ systems"?
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Dear Colleagues,  I give students in my 200 level 
course on Sociology of Health & Medicine a chance 
to choose a topic to cover during the last two weeks 
of the course.  This year they have chosen the topic of 
health & medicine in the "Third World". I am hoping you can advise me on
papers or book chapters that might be useful for them to read, as well as 
something that would be useful for me to read in preparing for the class.
	They are interested in 
- current problems & unique soultions (they know about HIV in Sub-Saharan
	Africa. I'm thinking a success story emphasizing local
	alternatives to hi-thech/ hospital med. might be interesitng
- role of N. American Govts., Intl Agencies  & Companies (e.g.Nestles)...

I've already got one useful resource in mind -- The first chapter of
 _World Mental Health: Problems & priorities in Low-Income Countries_ 
by Desjalais, Eisenberg, Good & Kleinman
(this deals with much more than mental health).

Thanks in advance for any additional leads,

Bill Magee
U. of Toronto