Global health in times of violence
By: edited by Barbara Rylko-Bauer, Linda Whiteford, and Paul Farmer.
Contributors: Rylko-Bauer, Barbara.; Whiteford, Linda M.; Farmer, Paul, 1959-; School for Advanced Research (Santa Fe, N.M.)
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series; School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series
Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Santa Fe
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781934691144
Subjects: Violence; World health; Violence; World Health; Cross-Cultural Comparison; Delivery of Health Care; Socioeconomic Factors
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : coming to terms with global violence and health / Barbara Rylko-Bauer, Linda Whiteford, and Paul Farmer; title: Recognizing invisible violence : a thirty-year ethnographic retrospective / Philippe Bourgois; title: "Landmine Boy" and the tomorrow of violence / Paul Farmer; title: Fault lines / Carolyn Nordstrom; title: Failure to protect, failure to provide : refugee reproductive rights / Linda Whiteford; title: A violence of history : accounting for AIDS in post-apartheid South Africa / Didier Fassin; title: Desperate measures : a syndemic approach to the anthropology of health in a violent city / Merrill Singer; title: The vicissitudes of structural violence : Nicaragua at the turn of the twenty-first century / James Quesada; title: Planting "seeds of health" in the fields of structural violence : the life and death of Francisco Curruchiche / H.K. Heggenhougen; title: Medicine in the political economy of brutality : reflections from the Holocaust and beyond / Barbara Rylko-Bauer; title: Epilogue : global health in times of violence; title: finding hope / Linda Whiteford, Barbara Rylko-Bauer, and Paul Farmer.