Global Health Why Cultural Perceptions, Social Representations, and Biopolitics Matter

Name: Global Health Why Cultural Perceptions, Social Representations, and Biopolitics Matter
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ISBN: 9780816525744

ISBN-10: 0816525749

ISBN-13: 9780816525744

Edition: 2008

Authors: Mark Nichter, Mark Nichter

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In this lesson-packed book, Mark Nichter, one of the worlds 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…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Publication date: 4/24/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Popular Health Culture



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



Rhetoric Matters



Representations That Frame Health and Development Policy



Representations of Health Status and Social Formations



NGOs, Social Capital, and the Politics of the Possible



Future Research



Toward a Next Generation of Social Science Research in Global Health


References


Index