Turning the World Upside Down

Turning the World
Upside Down
the search for global health in the 21st Century
Nigel Crisp
Richer countries import many health workers from poorer
countries, whilst at the same time exporting their ideas and
ideologies about health. It is an unfair exchange. What
would it be like, Lord Nigel Crisp asks, if it were the other way
around – and poorer countries imported health workers from
richer ones and exported their ideas and experiences about
health?
“In today’s joined up world we are all connected and
the health of one person or nation affects us all. In this
important and timely book Nigel Crisp describes how
we can all learn from each other, rich and poor, and
work together to improve health.”
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Turning the World Upside Down is a search to understand
the changing nature of global health - what is happening and
what it means for us all. The book is richly illustrated with
examples from the authors’ journey - from running England’s
National Health Service, the largest health organisation in the
world, to working in some of the poorest countries of the
world. It sets out a new vision and concludes by describing
the actions we need to take to accelerate the change.
“This is a very important topic, particularly at a time
of global recession. Nobody could be better qualified
to compare what is happening in health in the rich
and the poor world and to bring fresh and provocative
insight to the subject.”
The Honourable Mary Robinson, Former President of
Ireland and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Turning the World Upside Down is a search for
understanding that helps us to see how Western Scientific
Medicine, which has served us so well in the 20th Century,
needs to adapt and evolve to cope with the demands of the
21st Century.
I greatly enjoyed the book and was inspired by it …
[Crisp] has distilled his unique, considerable, and
sometimes painful experience into a wise book full of
provocative ideas that everybody interested in health,
and particularly students in health disciplines would
benefit from reading. 4/4 stars
Dr Richard Smith, UnitedHealth Chronic Disease Initiative;
ex-Editor of the BMJ
Readership: Professionals, academics, students and general readers
interested in global health and development.
978 1 85315 933 6 | 2010 | 256 pages | Paperback | rrp £12.95
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The book has three unique features:
n It describes what rich countries can learn from poorer ones,
as well as the other way round
n It discusses health in rich and poor countries in the same
way and suggests that instead of talking about international
development we should talk about co-development
n It sets out a new vision for global health, based on our
interdependence, our desire for independence and our rights
and accountabilities as citizens of the world
“The poorer world has something of real value to teach the
richer world - in health and elsewhere - and Nigel Crisp is
supremely well qualified to interpret it for us”
Julia Neuberger, Baroness Rabbi Neuberger DBE
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