When People Come First Critical Studies in Global Health

Name: When People Come First Critical Studies in Global Health
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ISBN: 9780691157399

ISBN-10: 0691157391

ISBN-13: 9780691157399

Edition: 2013

Authors: Joï¿½o Biehl, Adriana Petryna

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When People Come Firstcritically 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…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 7/19/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 456
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.13" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

Adriana Petryna is the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of "When Experiments Travel: Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects" and the coeditor of "When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health" (both Princeton).



Critical Global Health


Joï¿½o Biehl




Evidence


Overview



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




Interventions


Overview



Therapeutic Clientship


Belonging in Uganda's Projectified Landscape of AIDS Care


Susan Reynolds Whyte




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




Markets


Overview



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



Afterword The Peopling of Technologies



Contributors


Acknowledgments


References


Index