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Blind spot : how neoliberalism infiltrated global health /
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 w...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2014]
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| Colección: | California series in public anthropology ;
30. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxxviii, 240 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-230) and index. |
| ISBN: | 052095873X 9780520958739 9781322008363 1322008361 |