Silent Violence : Global Health, Malaria, and Child Survival in Tanzania /

Seeking to link social, economic, and political forces to local experiences of sickness and suffering, this book analyzes the experiences and practices of people most deeply affected by malaria. The author explores the experience of individuals and households confronted by malaria against the backdr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kamat, Vinay R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions
Malaria > Treatment.
Malaria > Social aspects.
Economic history.
Children > Diseases.
Children.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
children (people by age group)
Enfants.
Socioeconomic Factors > epidemiology
Social Conditions > epidemiology
Malaria > therapy
Child
Malaria > epidemiology
Children > Diseases > Tanzania.
Malaria > Treatment > Tanzania.
Malaria > Social aspects > Tanzania.
Tanzania.
Tanzanie > Conditions economiques.
Tanzanie > Conditions sociales.
Tanzania
Tanzania > Economic conditions.
Tanzania > Social conditions.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Global discourses. The violence of a global killer ; Locating the field ; Commanding heights and failed promises
  • Local practices. Micropolitics of childhood malaria ; Malaria deaths and meaning making ; Malaria, single mothers and social suffering
  • Philanthrocapitalism. Old ideas and new promises ; Pharmaceutical nexus and globalizing antimalarials
  • The way forward. From malaria control to malaria elimination ; Epilogue : the end of malaria?

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