Making and Unmaking Public Health in Africa Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives

Name: Making and Unmaking Public Health in Africa Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives
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ISBN: 9780821420584

ISBN-10: 0821420585

ISBN-13: 9780821420584

Edition: 2013

Authors: Ruth J. Prince, Rebecca Marsland

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Africa has emerged as a prime arena of global health interventions that focus on particular diseases and health emergencies. These are framed increasingly in terms of international concerns about security, human rights, and humanitarian crisis. This presents a stark contrast to the 1960s and ‘70s, when many newly independent African governments pursued the vision of public health “for all,” of comprehensive health care services directed by the state with support from foreign donors. These initiatives often failed, undermined by international politics, structural adjustment, and neoliberal policies, and by African states themselves. Yet their traces remain in contemporary expectations of and…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Publication date: 11/26/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 260
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English