Global health
Subtitle: why cultural perceptions, social representations, and biopolitics matter
By: Mark Nichter.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780816525737; 9780816525744
Subjects: World health; World health -- Social aspects; Biopolitics; World Health; Cross-Cultural Comparison; Health Policy; Social Medicine; Social Sciences
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-260) and index.
Table of contents: title: Perceptions of ethnophysiology matter; title: Representations of illness causality and vectors that transmit disease; title: Why is research on local illness categories important?; title: Perceptions of pharmaceuticals and quality of care; title: Representations that frame health and development policy; title: Representations of health status and social formations; title: NGOs, social capital, and the politics of the possible; title: Toward a next generation of social science research in global health.