Reading list 2007

The reading list will be announced in January 2007. It may include several titles from the reading list 2006.
The syllabus will contain some obligatory readings of about 500 pages, available in a printed article collection at the bookstore 'Akademisk Kvarter' (Medicine and Health science building) in February 2007.
Additional articles from which each student has to choose another 500 pages will be provided on this web site as optional reading.


Special recommended books:

British Medical Association. The Medical Profession and Human Rights: Handbook for a changing agenda. London: Zed Books; 2001.

Krug EG, Dahlberg LL, Mercy JA, Zwi AB, Lozano R. World report on violence and health. Geneva: WHO; 2002.

Levy BS, Sidel VW, editors. War and Public Health. New York: Oxford University Press; 1997.

Lewer N. Physicians and the peace movement: prescriptions for hope. London: Frank Cass; 1992.

Taipale I, Mäkelä PH, Juva K, et al. War or Health?: A Reader. London & New York: Zed Books; 2002.


Recommended Web Sites:

Peace through Health, McMaster University
www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/peace-health/

Health as a Bridge to Peace, WHO
www.who.int/disasters/bridge.cfm

Violence and Injury Prevention, WHO
www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/violence/en/

UN study on disarmament and non-proliferation education
http://disarmament.un.org:8080/education/study.html

Health and Human Rights, WHO
www.who.int/hhr/en/

International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
www.ippnw.org

MedAct
www.medact.org

Doctors Without Borders
www.msf.org

International Committee of Red Cross
www.icrc.org

Physicians for Human Rights
www.phrusa.org