Introduction : what is growing? Who is dying? / Joyce V. Millen ... [et al.] -- Getting a grip on the global economy / John Gershman and Alec Irwin -- Terms reconsidered : decoding development discourse / Aaron Shalow and Alec Irwin -- Hypocrisies of development and the health of the Haitian poor / Paul Farmer and Didi Bertrand -- Theoretical therapies, remote remedies : SAPs and the political ecology of poverty and health in Africa / Brooke G. Schoepf ... [et al.] -- Sickness amidst recovery : public debt and private suffering in Peru / Jim Yong Kim ... [et al.] -- Neoliberal economic policy, "State desertion," and the Russian health crisis / Mark G. Field ... [et al.] -- Dying for growth, part I : transnational corporations and the health of the poor / Joyce V. Millen and Timothy H. Holtz -- Dying for growth, part II : the political influence of national and transnational corporations / Joyce V. Millen ... [et al.] -- Tragedy without end : the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster / Timothy H. Holtz -- Neoliberal trade and investment and the health of Maquiladora workers on the U.S.- Mexico border / Joel Brenner ... [et al.] -- The drug war in perspective / Arnold Chien ... [et al.] --"The threat of a good example" : health and revolution in Cuba / Aviva Chomsky -- The smoke and mirrors of health reform in El Salvador : community health NGOs and the not-so-neoliberal state / Sandy Smith-Nonini -- Conclusion : pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will / Joyce V. Millen... [et al] -- Pragmatic solidarity / Heena Patel ... [et al]