When people come first : critical studies in global health /
When people come first : critical studies in global health /
edited by João Biehl and Adriana Petryna.
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2013]
- 1 online resource (446 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Critical global health / A return to the magic bullet? Malaria and global health in the twenty-first century / Evidence-based global public health : subjects, profits, erasures / The "right to know" or "know your rights"? Human rights and a people-centered approach to health policy / Children as victims : the moral economy of childhood in the times of AIDS / Therapeutic clientship : belonging in uganda's projectified landscape of AIDS care / The struggle for a public sector : PEPFAR in Mozambique / The next epidemic : pain and the politics of relief in Botswana's cancer ward / A salvage ethnography of the Guinea Worm : witchcraft, oracles and magic in a disease eradication program / Public-private mixes : the market for anti-tuberculosis drugs in India / Labor instability and community mental health : the work of pharmaceuticals in Santiago, Chile / The ascetic subject of compliance : the turn to chronic diseases in global health / Legal remedies : therapeutic markets and the judicialization of the right to health / The peopling of technologies / Joao Biehl and Adriana Petryna -- Marcos Cueto -- Vincanne Adams -- Joseph J. Amon -- Didier Fassin -- Susan Reynolds Whyte, et al. -- James Pfeiffer -- Julie Livingston -- Amy Moran-Thomas -- Stefan Ecks and Ian Harper -- Clara Han -- Ian Whitmarsh -- Joao Biehl and Adriana Petryna -- Michael M.J. Fischer.
"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"--
In English.
9781400846801 (electronic bk.) 1400846803 (electronic bk.)
10.1515/9781400846801 doi
22573/ctt2d15n0 JSTOR
Weltbankgruppe
Berner Handelskammer
World health.
Public health--International cooperation.
International cooperation.
Global Health
International Cooperation
Public Health Practice
Santé mondiale.
Santé publique--Coopération internationale.
Coopération internationale.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
MEDICAL--Public Health.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Globalization.
HEALTH & FITNESS--Diseases--General.
HEALTH & FITNESS--Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL--Diseases.
MEDICAL--Health Care Delivery.
MEDICAL--Health Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Disease & Health Issues.
Public health--International cooperation.
World health.
Gesundheitspolitik
Ethnomedizin
Globalisierung
Biomedizin
Pharmazeutische Industrie
Malaria
Tuberkulose
Drakunkulose
Depression
Krebs
Chile
Indien
Moçambique
Uganda
Südafrika
Botswana
Brasilien
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
RA441 / .W44 2013eb
362.1
2013 H-496 WA 530.1
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Critical global health / A return to the magic bullet? Malaria and global health in the twenty-first century / Evidence-based global public health : subjects, profits, erasures / The "right to know" or "know your rights"? Human rights and a people-centered approach to health policy / Children as victims : the moral economy of childhood in the times of AIDS / Therapeutic clientship : belonging in uganda's projectified landscape of AIDS care / The struggle for a public sector : PEPFAR in Mozambique / The next epidemic : pain and the politics of relief in Botswana's cancer ward / A salvage ethnography of the Guinea Worm : witchcraft, oracles and magic in a disease eradication program / Public-private mixes : the market for anti-tuberculosis drugs in India / Labor instability and community mental health : the work of pharmaceuticals in Santiago, Chile / The ascetic subject of compliance : the turn to chronic diseases in global health / Legal remedies : therapeutic markets and the judicialization of the right to health / The peopling of technologies / Joao Biehl and Adriana Petryna -- Marcos Cueto -- Vincanne Adams -- Joseph J. Amon -- Didier Fassin -- Susan Reynolds Whyte, et al. -- James Pfeiffer -- Julie Livingston -- Amy Moran-Thomas -- Stefan Ecks and Ian Harper -- Clara Han -- Ian Whitmarsh -- Joao Biehl and Adriana Petryna -- Michael M.J. Fischer.
"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"--
In English.
9781400846801 (electronic bk.) 1400846803 (electronic bk.)
10.1515/9781400846801 doi
22573/ctt2d15n0 JSTOR
Weltbankgruppe
Berner Handelskammer
World health.
Public health--International cooperation.
International cooperation.
Global Health
International Cooperation
Public Health Practice
Santé mondiale.
Santé publique--Coopération internationale.
Coopération internationale.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
MEDICAL--Public Health.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Globalization.
HEALTH & FITNESS--Diseases--General.
HEALTH & FITNESS--Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL--Diseases.
MEDICAL--Health Care Delivery.
MEDICAL--Health Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Disease & Health Issues.
Public health--International cooperation.
World health.
Gesundheitspolitik
Ethnomedizin
Globalisierung
Biomedizin
Pharmazeutische Industrie
Malaria
Tuberkulose
Drakunkulose
Depression
Krebs
Chile
Indien
Moçambique
Uganda
Südafrika
Botswana
Brasilien
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
RA441 / .W44 2013eb
362.1
2013 H-496 WA 530.1