Blind spot : how neoliberalism infiltrated global health /

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Author / Creator:Keshavjee, Salmaan, 1970- author.
Imprint:Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2014]
Description:1 online resource (xxxviii, 240 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:California series in public anthropology ; 30
California series in public anthropology ; 30.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11235714
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Other authors / contributors:Farmer, Paul, 1959- writer of foreword.
ISBN:052095873X
9780520958739
9781322008363
1322008361
9780520282834
0520282833
9780520282841
0520282841
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-230) and index.
English.
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Summary:Neoliberalism has been the defining paradigm in global health since the latter part of the twentieth century. What started as an untested and unproven theory that the creation of unfettered markets would give rise to political democracy led to policies that promoted the belief that private markets were the optimal agents for the distribution of social goods, including health care. A vivid illustration of the infiltration of neoliberal ideology into the design and implementation of development programs, this case study, set in post-Soviet Tajikistan's remote eastern province of Badak.
Other form:Print version: Keshavjee, Salmaan, 1970- Blind spot. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2014] 9780520282834