AMA Publishing Group: Poverty and Global Health Topic Collection http://pubs.jamanetwork.com/ en-us Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:51:08 GMT Silverchair editor@pubs.jamanetwork.com webmaster@pubs.jamanetwork.com Exposing Poverty and Inspiring Medical Humanitarianism http://pubs.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=182199 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT Markel H, Gostin LO. <span class="paragraphSection">Newspaper headlines and television reports are disturbing and mind-numbing: Hurricane Katrina, the Asian tsunami, the Myanmar cyclone, earthquakes in China, genocide in Darfur. A unifying theme of these tragedies is how often they are met by shrugged shoulders, glazed eyes, or complete indifference, proof positive of the aphorism “one half of the world knows not how the other lives.”</span> 300 2 209 211 10.1001/jama.2008.45 http://pubs.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=182199