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When people come first : critical studies in global health, edited by João Biehl & Adriana Petryna

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When People Come First critically assesses the expanding field of global health. It brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to address the medical, social, political, and economic dimensions of the global health enterprise through vivid case studies and bold conceptual work. The book demonstrates the crucial role of ethnography as an empirical lantern in global health, arguing for a more comprehensive, people-centered approach. Topics include the limits of technological quick fixes in disease control, the moral economy of global health science, the unexpected effects of massive treatment rollouts in resource-poor contexts, and how right-to-health activism coalesces with the increased influence of the pharmaceutical industry on health care. The contributors explore the altered landscapes left behind after programs scale up, break down, or move on. We learn that disease is really never just one thing, technology delivery does not equate with care, and biology and technology interact in ways we cannot always predict. The most effective solutions may well be found in people themselves, who consistently exceed the projections of experts and the medical-scientific, political, and humanitarian frameworks in which they are cast.When People Come First sets a new research agenda in global health and social theory and challenges us to rethink the relationships between care, rights, health, and economic futures"--
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eng
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446 pages
Contents
  • Critical Global Health, João Biehl and Adriana Petryna 1 I EVIDENCE Overview 23 1 A Return to the Magic Bullet? Malaria and Global Health in the Twenty-First Century, Marcos Cueto 30 2 Evidence-Based Global Public Health
  • Subjects, Profits, Erasures, Vincanne Adams 54 3 The "Right to Know" or "Know Your Rights"? Human Rights and a People-Centered Approach to Health Policy, Joseph J. Amon 91 4 Children as Victims
  • The Moral Economy of Childhood in the Times of AIDS, Didier Fassin 109 II INTERVENTIONS Overview 133 5 Therapeutic Clientship
  • Belonging in Uganda's Projectified Landscape of AIDS Care, Susan Reynolds Whyte, Michael A. Whyte, Lotte Meinert, and Jenipher Twebaze 140 6 The Struggle for a Public Sector
  • PEPFAR in Mozambique, James Pfeiffer 166 7 The Next Epidemic
  • Pain and the Politics of Relief in Botswana's Cancer Ward, Julie Livingston 182 8 A Salvage Ethnography of the Guinea Worm
  • Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic in a Disease Eradication Program, Amy Moran-Thomas 207 III MARKETS Overview 243 9 Public-Private Mixes
  • The Market for Anti-Tuberculosis Drugs in India, Stefan Ecks and Ian Harper 252 10 Labor Instability and Community Mental Health
  • The Work of Pharmaceuticals in Santiago, Chile, Clara Han 276 11 The Ascetic Subject of Compliance
  • The Turn to Chronic Diseases in Global Health, Ian Whitmarsh 302 12 Legal Remedies
  • Therapeutic Markets and the Judicialization of the Right to Health, João Biehl and Adriana Petryna 325 Afterword
  • The Peopling of Technologies, Michael M. J. Fischer 347 Contributors 375 Acknowledgments 381 References 385 Index 425
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9780691157382
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When people come first : critical studies in global health
Title
When people come first
Title remainder
critical studies in global health
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edited by João Biehl & Adriana Petryna
Creator
Contributor
Editor
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Language
eng
Summary
When People Come First critically assesses the expanding field of global health. It brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to address the medical, social, political, and economic dimensions of the global health enterprise through vivid case studies and bold conceptual work. The book demonstrates the crucial role of ethnography as an empirical lantern in global health, arguing for a more comprehensive, people-centered approach. Topics include the limits of technological quick fixes in disease control, the moral economy of global health science, the unexpected effects of massive treatment rollouts in resource-poor contexts, and how right-to-health activism coalesces with the increased influence of the pharmaceutical industry on health care. The contributors explore the altered landscapes left behind after programs scale up, break down, or move on. We learn that disease is really never just one thing, technology delivery does not equate with care, and biology and technology interact in ways we cannot always predict. The most effective solutions may well be found in people themselves, who consistently exceed the projections of experts and the medical-scientific, political, and humanitarian frameworks in which they are cast.When People Come First sets a new research agenda in global health and social theory and challenges us to rethink the relationships between care, rights, health, and economic futures"--
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Biehl, João Guilherme
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no index present
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1966-
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Petryna, Adriana
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  • World health
  • Public health
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When people come first : critical studies in global health, edited by João Biehl & Adriana Petryna
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents
Critical Global Health, João Biehl and Adriana Petryna 1 I EVIDENCE Overview 23 1 A Return to the Magic Bullet? Malaria and Global Health in the Twenty-First Century, Marcos Cueto 30 2 Evidence-Based Global Public Health -- Subjects, Profits, Erasures, Vincanne Adams 54 3 The "Right to Know" or "Know Your Rights"? Human Rights and a People-Centered Approach to Health Policy, Joseph J. Amon 91 4 Children as Victims -- The Moral Economy of Childhood in the Times of AIDS, Didier Fassin 109 II INTERVENTIONS Overview 133 5 Therapeutic Clientship -- Belonging in Uganda's Projectified Landscape of AIDS Care, Susan Reynolds Whyte, Michael A. Whyte, Lotte Meinert, and Jenipher Twebaze 140 6 The Struggle for a Public Sector -- PEPFAR in Mozambique, James Pfeiffer 166 7 The Next Epidemic -- Pain and the Politics of Relief in Botswana's Cancer Ward, Julie Livingston 182 8 A Salvage Ethnography of the Guinea Worm -- Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic in a Disease Eradication Program, Amy Moran-Thomas 207 III MARKETS Overview 243 9 Public-Private Mixes -- The Market for Anti-Tuberculosis Drugs in India, Stefan Ecks and Ian Harper 252 10 Labor Instability and Community Mental Health -- The Work of Pharmaceuticals in Santiago, Chile, Clara Han 276 11 The Ascetic Subject of Compliance -- The Turn to Chronic Diseases in Global Health, Ian Whitmarsh 302 12 Legal Remedies -- Therapeutic Markets and the Judicialization of the Right to Health, João Biehl and Adriana Petryna 325 Afterword -- The Peopling of Technologies, Michael M. J. Fischer 347 Contributors 375 Acknowledgments 381 References 385 Index 425
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FIEb17515208
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24 cm.
Extent
446 pages
Isbn
9780691157382
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unmediated
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rdamedia.
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  • n
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(OCoLC)1088444828
Label
When people come first : critical studies in global health, edited by João Biehl & Adriana Petryna
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier.
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent.
Contents
Critical Global Health, João Biehl and Adriana Petryna 1 I EVIDENCE Overview 23 1 A Return to the Magic Bullet? Malaria and Global Health in the Twenty-First Century, Marcos Cueto 30 2 Evidence-Based Global Public Health -- Subjects, Profits, Erasures, Vincanne Adams 54 3 The "Right to Know" or "Know Your Rights"? Human Rights and a People-Centered Approach to Health Policy, Joseph J. Amon 91 4 Children as Victims -- The Moral Economy of Childhood in the Times of AIDS, Didier Fassin 109 II INTERVENTIONS Overview 133 5 Therapeutic Clientship -- Belonging in Uganda's Projectified Landscape of AIDS Care, Susan Reynolds Whyte, Michael A. Whyte, Lotte Meinert, and Jenipher Twebaze 140 6 The Struggle for a Public Sector -- PEPFAR in Mozambique, James Pfeiffer 166 7 The Next Epidemic -- Pain and the Politics of Relief in Botswana's Cancer Ward, Julie Livingston 182 8 A Salvage Ethnography of the Guinea Worm -- Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic in a Disease Eradication Program, Amy Moran-Thomas 207 III MARKETS Overview 243 9 Public-Private Mixes -- The Market for Anti-Tuberculosis Drugs in India, Stefan Ecks and Ian Harper 252 10 Labor Instability and Community Mental Health -- The Work of Pharmaceuticals in Santiago, Chile, Clara Han 276 11 The Ascetic Subject of Compliance -- The Turn to Chronic Diseases in Global Health, Ian Whitmarsh 302 12 Legal Remedies -- Therapeutic Markets and the Judicialization of the Right to Health, João Biehl and Adriana Petryna 325 Afterword -- The Peopling of Technologies, Michael M. J. Fischer 347 Contributors 375 Acknowledgments 381 References 385 Index 425
Control code
FIEb17515208
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
446 pages
Isbn
9780691157382
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)1088444828

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