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Global health in times of violence / edited by Barbara Rylko-Bauer, Linda Whiteford, and Paul Farmer.
- Title
- Global health in times of violence / edited by Barbara Rylko-Bauer, Linda Whiteford, and Paul Farmer.
- Publication
- Santa Fe : School for Advanced Research Press, 2009.
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- Description
- ix, 288 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- What are the prospects for human health in a world threatened by disease and violence? In this volume, leading scholars and practitioners examine the impact of structural, military, and communal violence on health, psychosocial well-being, and health care delivery.
- Series Statement
- School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series
- Uniform Title
- School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-280) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Prologue : coming to terms with global violence and health / Barbara Rylko-Bauer, Linda Whiteford, and Paul Farmer -- Recognizing invisible violence : a thirty-year ethnographic retrospective / Philippe Bourgois -- "Landmine Boy" and the tomorrow of violence / Paul Farmer -- Fault lines / Carolyn Nordstrom -- Failure to protect, failure to provide : refugee reproductive rights / Linda Whiteford -- A violence of history : accounting for AIDS in post-apartheid South Africa / Didier Fassin -- Desperate measures : a syndemic approach to the anthropology of health in a violent city / Merrill Singer -- The vicissitudes of structural violence : Nicaragua at the turn of the twenty-first century / James Quesada -- Planting "seeds of health" in the fields of structural violence : the life and death of Francisco Curruchiche / H.K. Heggenhougen -- Medicine in the political economy of brutality : reflections from the Holocaust and beyond / Barbara Rylko-Bauer -- Epilogue : global health in times of violence--finding hope / Linda Whiteford, Barbara Rylko-Bauer, and Paul Farmer.
- ISBN
- 9781934691144 (alk. paper)
- 1934691143 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2009023596
- OCLC
- 390527988
- SCSB-11030043
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library