Master's Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Health - Public Health, grade: A, Tufts University School of Medicine (PREP), course: Pain Research, Education and Policy, language: English, abstract: This is an overview of neglected tropical diseases and neglect of pain in populations who have been left out of the benefits of political and economic globalization. What do we need to understand as development specialists, economists, policy opinion makers, social welfare advocates and students of international relations? The import of the issues covered are critical for all of us willing to comprehend the issues of social justice as we live through this novel, often cacaphonic, era of global coexistence.