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Silent violence : global health, malaria, and child survival in Tanzania
- Title
- Silent violence : global health, malaria, and child survival in Tanzania / Vinay R. Kamat.
- Author
- Kamat, Vinay R.
- Publication
- Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2013.
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- Description
- xviii, 299 p. : ill.; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Seeking to link social, economic, and political forces to local experiences of sickness and suffering, Silent Violence analyzes the experiences and practices of people most deeply affected by malaria. Vinay Kamat explores the experience of individuals and households confronted by malaria against the backdrop of social and health issues"--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects
- Children > Diseases > Tanzania
- Malaria > epidemiology > Tanzania
- Social Conditions > Tanzania
- Tanzania > Social conditions
- Malaria > Treatment > Tanzania
- Black author
- Child > Tanzania
- Socioeconomic Factors > Tanzania
- Malaria > Social aspects > Tanzania
- Malaria > therapy > Tanzania
- Tanzania > Economic conditions
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-288) and index.
- Contents
- Part I, Global discourses -- The violence of a global killer -- Locating the field -- Commanding heights and failed promises -- Part II, Local practices -- Micropolitics of childhood malaria -- Malaria deaths and meaning making -- Malaria, single mothers and social suffering -- Part III, Philanthrocapitalism -- Old ideas and new promises -- Globalizing antimalarials -- Part IV, The way forward -- From malaria control to malaria elimination -- Epilogue: the end of malaria?
- Call Number
- Sc E 14-366
- ISBN
- 9780816529520 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0816529523 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2013009677
- OCLC
- 830206285
- Author
- Kamat, Vinay R.
- Title
- Silent violence : global health, malaria, and child survival in Tanzania / Vinay R. Kamat.
- Imprint
- Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2013.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-288) and index.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 14-366