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When people come first Critical studies in global health
Publication details: Oxford Princeton University Press 2013Description: 446P PBISBN:- 9780691157399
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When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health
Front Cover
João Biehl, Adriana Petryna
Princeton University Press, 07-Jul-2013 - Social Science - 456 pages
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When People Come First critically assesses the expanding field of global health. It brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to address the medical, social, political, and economic dimensions of the global health enterprise through vivid case studies and bold conceptual work. The book demonstrates the crucial role of ethnography as an empirical lantern in global health, arguing for a more comprehensive, people-centered approach.
Topics include the limits of technological quick fixes in disease control, the moral economy of global health science, the unexpected effects of massive treatment rollouts in resource-poor contexts, and how right-to-health activism coalesces with the increased influence of the pharmaceutical industry on health care. The contributors explore the altered landscapes left behind after programs scale up, break down, or move on. We learn that disease is really never just one thing, technology delivery does not equate with care, and biology and technology interact in ways we cannot always predict. The most effective solutions may well be found in people themselves, who consistently exceed the projections of experts and the medical-scientific, political, and humanitarian frameworks in which they are cast.
When People Come First sets a new research agenda in global health and social theory and challenges us to rethink the relationships between care, rights, health, and economic futures.
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Title Page
Title PageTable of Contents
Table of Contents
Contents
Critical Global Health
1
Overview
23
A Return to the Magic Bullet?
30
EvidenceBased Global Public Health
54
The Right to Know or Know Your Rights?
91
Children as Victims
109
Overview
133
Therapeutic Clientship
140
Overview
243
PublicPrivate Mixes
252
Labor Instability and Community Mental Health
276
The Ascetic Subject of Compliance
302
Legal Remedies
325
Afterword
347
Contributors
375
Acknowledgments
381
The Struggle for a Public Sector
166
The Next Epidemic
182
A Salvage Ethnography of the Guinea Worm
207
Index
425
Copyright
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When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health
Front Cover
João Biehl, Adriana Petryna
Princeton University Press, 07-Jul-2013 - Social Science - 456 pages
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When People Come First critically assesses the expanding field of global health. It brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to address the medical, social, political, and economic dimensions of the global health enterprise through vivid case studies and bold conceptual work. The book demonstrates the crucial role of ethnography as an empirical lantern in global health, arguing for a more comprehensive, people-centered approach.
Topics include the limits of technological quick fixes in disease control, the moral economy of global health science, the unexpected effects of massive treatment rollouts in resource-poor contexts, and how right-to-health activism coalesces with the increased influence of the pharmaceutical industry on health care. The contributors explore the altered landscapes left behind after programs scale up, break down, or move on. We learn that disease is really never just one thing, technology delivery does not equate with care, and biology and technology interact in ways we cannot always predict. The most effective solutions may well be found in people themselves, who consistently exceed the projections of experts and the medical-scientific, political, and humanitarian frameworks in which they are cast.
When People Come First sets a new research agenda in global health and social theory and challenges us to rethink the relationships between care, rights, health, and economic futures.
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Title Page
Title PageTable of Contents
Table of Contents
Contents
Critical Global Health
1
Overview
23
A Return to the Magic Bullet?
30
EvidenceBased Global Public Health
54
The Right to Know or Know Your Rights?
91
Children as Victims
109
Overview
133
Therapeutic Clientship
140
Overview
243
PublicPrivate Mixes
252
Labor Instability and Community Mental Health
276
The Ascetic Subject of Compliance
302
Legal Remedies
325
Afterword
347
Contributors
375
Acknowledgments
381
The Struggle for a Public Sector
166
The Next Epidemic
182
A Salvage Ethnography of the Guinea Worm
207
Index
425
Copyright
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