Biehl / Petryna When People Come First

Critical Studies in Global Health
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4680-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 456 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Biehl, João

Biehl, Joao

Petryna, Adriana

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Globalisierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Critical Global Health, João Biehl and Adriana Petryna 1
I EVIDENCE
Overview 23
1A Return to the Magic Bullet? Malaria and Global Health in the Twenty-First Century, Marcos Cueto 30
2Evidence-Based Global Public Health - Subjects, Profits, Erasures, Vincanne Adams 54
3The "Right to Know" or "Know Your Rights"? Human Rights and a People-Centered Approach to Health Policy, Joseph J. Amon 91
4Children as Victims - The Moral Economy of Childhood in the Times of AIDS, Didier Fassin 109
II INTERVENTIONS
Overview 133
5Therapeutic Clientship - Belonging in Uganda's Projectified Landscape of AIDS Care, Susan Reynolds Whyte, Michael A. Whyte, Lotte Meinert, and Jenipher Twebaze 140
6The Struggle for a Public Sector - PEPFAR in Mozambique, James Pfeiffer 166
7The Next Epidemic - Pain and the Politics of Relief in Botswana's Cancer Ward, Julie Livingston 182
8A Salvage Ethnography of the Guinea Worm - Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic in a Disease Eradication Program, Amy Moran-Thomas 207
III MARKETS
Overview 243
9Public-Private Mixes - The Market for Anti-Tuberculosis Drugs in India, Stefan Ecks and Ian Harper 252
10Labor Instability and Community Mental Health - The Work of Pharmaceuticals in Santiago, Chile, Clara Han 276
11The Ascetic Subject of Compliance - The Turn to Chronic Diseases in Global Health, Ian Whitmarsh 302
12Legal Remedies - Therapeutic Markets and the Judicialization of the Right to Health, João Biehl and Adriana Petryna 325
Afterword - The Peopling of Technologies, Michael M. J. Fischer 347
Contributors 375
Acknowledgments 381
References 385
Index 425

Über Autor(innen)

João Biehl is the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. He is the author of Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment and Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival (Princeton). Adriana Petryna is the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl and When Experiments Travel: Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects (both Princeton).