Unhealthy health policy : a critical anthropological examination /

Unhealthy health policy : a critical anthropological examination /

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Imprint:Walnut Creek, Calif. : AltaMira Press, c2004.
Description:xx, 387 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Primary health care -- Developing countries.
Medical policy -- Developing countries.
Medical anthropology -- Developing countries.
Social medicine -- Developing countries.
Public health -- Developing countries.
Medical anthropology.
Medical policy.
Primary health care.
Public health.
Social medicine.
Developing countries.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5497674
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Other authors / contributors:Castro, Arachu, 1964-
Singer, Merrill.
ISBN:0759105103 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0759105111 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Anthropology and Health Policy: A Critical Perspective
  • I. International Institutions and the Setting of Health Policies
  • Chapter 1. Pearls of the Antilles? Public Health in Haiti and Cuba
  • Chapter 2. The Visible Fist of the Market: Health Reforms in Latin America
  • Chapter 3. International NGOs in the Mozambique Health Sector: The "Velvet Glove" of Privatization
  • Chapter 4. Primary Health Care since Alma Ata: Lost in the Bretton Woods?
  • Chapter 5. Shifting Policies toward Traditional Midwives: Implications for Reproductive Health Care in Pakistan
  • Chapter 6. The Contradictions of a Revolving Drug Fund in Post-Soviet Tajikistan: Selling Medicines to Starving Patients
  • Chapter 7. Equity in Access to AIDS Treatment in Africa: Pitfalls among Achievements
  • Chapter 8. Contracepting at Childbirth: The Integration of Reproductive Health and Population Policies in Mexico
  • Chapter 9. How Healthy Are Health and Population Policies? The Indian Experience
  • II. National Health Policies and Social Exclusion
  • Chapter 10. Happy Children with AIDS: The Paradox of a Healthy National Program in an Unequal and Exclusionary Brazil
  • Chapter 11. Between Risk and Confession: The Popularization of Syphilis Prophylaxis in Revolutionary Mexico
  • Chapter 12. Saving Lives, Destroying Livelihoods: Emergency Evacuation and Resettlement Policies in Ecuador
  • Chapter 13. Social Illegitimacy as a Foundation of Health Inequality: How the Political Treatment of Immigrants Illuminates a French Paradox
  • Chapter 14. The Indian Health Transfer Policy in Canada: Toward Self-Determination or Cost Containment?
  • Chapter 15. Land and Rural New Mexican Hispanics' Mistrust of Federal Programs: The Unintended Consequences of Medicaid Eligibility Rules
  • Chapter 16. The Death and Resurrection of Medicaid Managed Care for Mental Health Services in New Mexico
  • Chapter 17. Sugar Blues: A Social Anatomy of the Diabetes Epidemic in the United States
  • Chapter 18. Syringe Access, HIV Risk, and AIDS in Massachusetts and Connecticut: The Health Implications of Public Policy
  • Chapter 19. Why Is It Easier to Get Drugs than Drug Treatment in the United States?
  • Chapter 20. U.S. Inner-City Apartheid and the War on Drugs: Crack among Homeless Heroin Addicts
  • III. Impact of Policy on the Practice of Medicine
  • Chapter 21. U.S. Health Policy on Alternative Medicine: A Case Study in the Co-optation of a Popular Movement
  • Chapter 22. Home Birth Emergencies in the United States: The Trouble with Transport
  • Chapter 23. Why Is Prevention Not the Focus for Breast Cancer Policy in the Unites States Rather than High-Tech Medical Solutions?
  • Index
  • About the Editors and Contributors

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