Title: Health and social change in international perspective /
Authors: Chen, Lincoln C.; Kleinman, Arthur; Ware, Norma C.
Publisher: Dept. of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health : Distributed by Harvard University Press,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Health transition; World health.; Social medicine; Medical policy; Health Policy; Social Medicine; Global Health; Social Change; Global Health.
Contents: Overview / Lincoln C. Chen, Arthur Kleinman and Norma C. Ware -- 1. Dynamics and Patterns of Mortality Change / Christopher J.L. Murray and Lincoln C. Chen -- 2. Elements for a Theory of the Health Transition / Julio Frenk, Jose-Luis Bobadilla, Claudio Stern, Tomas Frejka and Rafael Lozano -- 3. Social and Behavioral Pathologies / Jonathan A. Sugar, Arthur Kleinman and Kris Heggenbougen -- 4. Understanding Morbidity Change / Christopher J.L. Murray and Lincoln C. Chen -- 5. Objectivity and Position: Assessment of Health and Well-being / Amartya Sen -- 6. An Anthropological Perspective on Objectivity: Observation, Categorization, and the Assessment of Suffering / Arthur Kleinman -- 7. Moral Orientations to Suffering: Legitimation, Power, and Healing / Veena Das -- 8. Child Mortality Differences, Personal Health Care Practices, and Medical Technology: The United States, 1900-1930 / Gretchen A. Condran and Samuel H. Preston.