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Global health : why cultural perceptions, social representations, and biopolitics matter
- Title
- Global health : why cultural perceptions, social representations, and biopolitics matter / Mark Nichter.
- Author
- Nichter, Mark.
- Publication
- Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2008.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 268 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-260) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFF 08-515
- ISBN
- 9780816525737 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0816525730 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780816525744 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0816525749 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007045614
- OCLC
- 180982653
- Author
- Nichter, Mark.
- Title
- Global health : why cultural perceptions, social representations, and biopolitics matter / Mark Nichter.
- Imprint
- Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2008.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-260) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFF 08-515