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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, ©2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | RA441 .N53 2008 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xi, 268 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
- Summary
- "In this lesson-packed book, Mark Nichter, one of the world's leading medical anthropologists, summarizes what more than a quarter-century of health social science research has contributed to international health and elucidates what social science research can contribute to global health and the study of biopolitics in the future. Nichter focuses on our cultural understanding of infectious and vector-borne diseases, how they are understood locally, and how various populations respond to public health interventions. The book examines the perceptions of three groups whose points of view on illness, health care, and the politics of responsibility often differ and frequently conflict: local populations living in developing countries, public health practitioners working in international health, and health planners/policy makers." -- BOOK PUBLISHER WEBSITE.
- Subject
- World health
- World health > Social aspects
- Biopolitics
- Cross-cultural studies
- Medical policy
- Social medicine
- Social sciences
- Global Health
- Cross-Cultural Comparison
- Health Policy
- Social Medicine
- Social Sciences
- Santé mondiale
- Santé mondiale > Aspect social
- Biopolitique
- Études transculturelles
- Politique sanitaire
- Médecine sociale
- Sciences sociales
- social sciences
- Social sciences
- Social medicine
- Medical policy
- Cross-cultural studies
- Biopolitics
- World health
- World health > Social aspects
- Weltbevölkerung
- Gesundheitsförderung
- Medizinsoziologie
- Folkhälsa > sociala aspekter
- Folkhälsopolitik
- Medizinsoziologie
- Genre/Form
- Nonfiction.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780816525737
- 0816525730
- 9780816525744
- 0816525749
- LCCN
- 2007045614
- OCLC
- ocn180982653
- 180982653
- SCSB-1472857
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library