Screen LibraryGlobal health：why cultural perceptions, social representations, and biopolitics matter
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University of Arizona Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Tucson |
| Publication Dates: | c2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xi, 268 p.: ill. ; 26 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780816525737 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0816525730 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780816525744 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0816525749 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | R |
| CLC: | R-05 |
| Call Number: | R-05/N629 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-260) and index. 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 -- Representations that frame health and development policy -- Representations of health status and social formations -- NGOs, social capital, and the politics of the possible -- Toward a next generation of social science research in global health. |