Edited by
S. William A. Gunn
Michele Masellis

2008

Parallel with their spectacular and life-saving advances in biotechnology, the health sciences have been increasingly strengthening their responsibility and humanitarian action. Current inequalities, conflicts, and stresses, however, continue to disadvantage the health and well being of an unacceptably large proportion of the world’s population, whether in developing countries, in industrially insalubrious environments, in disaster situations, in chronic poverty, or in sick opulence.