TY - GEN AU - Nichter,Mark TI - Global health: why cultural perceptions, social representations, and biopolitics matter SN - 9780816525744 AV - RA441. N53 2008 U1 - 362.1 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Tucson PB - University of Arizona Press KW - World health KW - Social aspects KW - Biopolitics KW - World Health KW - Cross-Cultural Comparison KW - Health Policy KW - Social Medicine KW - Social Sciences N1 - 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 ER -