Global health : why cultural perceptions, social representations, and biopolitics matter / Mark Nichter.
Publication details: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2008. Description: xi, 268 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN: 9780816525744; 0816525749 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): World health | World health -- Social aspects | Biopolitics | World Health | Cross-Cultural Comparison | Health Policy | Social Medicine | Social SciencesDDC classification: 362.1 LOC classification: RA441. | N53 2008NLM classification: WA 530.1
Contents:
Perceptions of ethnophysiology matter -- Representations of illness causality and vectors that transmit disease -- Why is research on local illness categories important? -- Perceptions of pharmaceuticals and quality of care -- Representations that frame health and development policy -- Representations of health status and social formations -- NGOs, social capital, and the politics of the possible -- Toward a next generation of social science research in global health.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-260) and index.
Perceptions of ethnophysiology matter -- Representations of illness causality and vectors that transmit disease -- Why is research on local illness categories important? -- Perceptions of pharmaceuticals and quality of care -- Representations that frame health and development policy -- Representations of health status and social formations -- NGOs, social capital, and the politics of the possible -- Toward a next generation of social science research in global health.