The reading for this 10-ECTS-giving module includes about 1000 pages. Half of these are obligatory and consists of the web-based interactive teaching package Medical Peace Work (textbook, e-cases, and questions); another 500 pages have to be selected from a list of relevant articles and book chapters.
Obligatory reading
As obligatory reading serves the Medical Peace Work online course (with approximately 500 pages textbook, 300 test questions and 19 problem-based e-learning cases). It can be accessed at the MPW website. In order to get access to the complete online material you need to create an account at the Helsekompetanse learning platform and enroll for the seven different modules. You can enroll at Helsekompetanse following the link here.
Once you have registered you are ready to start with the Medical Peace Work material, but before you go ahead, please take a look at the online course information. Each of the seven online course modules can give you an MPW certificate, given that you have answered enough test questions to the 79 text book lessons correctly. For PHMW-2009 these certificates are not important, but all seven modules are obligatory reading. We will go through some content of all modules during the intensive teaching week. It is therefore an advantage, if you have read the online material before week 47. You can start the reading already now…
Recommended reading
This list of relevant books, chapters and articles will be continuously updated until the teaching week in November 2009. Please select your own 500 pages of elctive reading from this list:
1. Books:
- Arya, N. and J. Santa Barbara, Eds. (2008) Peace through health - How health professionals can work for a less violent world. Sterling, Kumarian Press.
- Anderson, M. B., Ed. (1999). Do no harm: How aid can support peace - or war. Boulder, Lynne Rienner Publishers.
- British Medical Association, Ed. (2001). The Medical Profession and Human Rights: Handbook for a changing agenda. London, Zed Books.
- Farmer, P. (2005). Pathologies of power: health, human rights, and the new war on the poor. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University of California Press.
- Gruskin, S., M. A. Grodin, et al., Eds. (2005). Perspectives on Health and Human Rights. New York and London, Routledge.
- Krug, E. G., L. L. Dahlberg, et al., Eds. (2002). World report on violence and health. Geneva, WHO.
- Levy, B. S. and V. W. Sidel, Eds. (2008). War and Public Health: 2nd ed. New York, Oxford University Press.
- Lewer, N. (1992). Physicians and the peace movement: prescriptions for hope. London, Frank Cass.
- Mann, J. M., S. Gruskin, et al., Eds. (1999). Health and Human Rights: A Reader. New York and London, Routledge.
- Marks, S. P., Ed. (2006). Health and Human Rights: Basic International Documents. Harvard Series on Health and Human Rights. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health.
- Perrin, P. (1996). War and Public Health: A Handbook, Geneva, ICRC.
- Peters, M. A., Ed. (1996). A Health-to-Peace Handbook: Ideas and experiences of how health initiatives can work for peace. Hamilton, War and Health Program, McMaster University.
- Taipale, I., P. H. Mäkelä, et al., Eds. (2002). War or Health?: A Reader. London & New York, Zed Books.
2. Book chapters and articles:
Under updating.
