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The Changing Order of Public Health in Africa : Anthropological Perspectives on the Governance of Wellbeing /

Africa has emerged as a prime arena of global health interventions that focus on particular diseases and health emergencies. These are framed increasingly in terms of international concerns about security, human rights, and humanitarian crisis. This presents a stark contrast to the 1960s and '7...

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Otros Autores: Marsland, Rebecca (Editor ), Prince, Ruth Jane (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : Ohio University Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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500 |a Papers from a workshop held at the University of Cambridge's Centre of African Studies and Department of Social Anthropology in June 2008. 
505 0 |a Introduction; Locating Health, Healing, and the Public in Africa; Health, Development, and the Colonial State in Africa; The Developmentalist State in Africa; The 1980s: Neoliberalism, Structural Adjustment, and NGOs; Nongovernmental Governance?; From Public Health to Global Health?; Futures?; Overview of the Chapters; Notes; The Peculiarly Political Problem behind Nigeria's Primary Health Care Provision; Local Government Authorities; On the Origins; Today's "Private Health"; Conclusions?; Notes; Who Are the "Public" in Public Health?; Debating Funerals; Public Health without a Public? 
505 0 |a The Public Control of Public HealthWhat Kind of Public Is There in Kyela?; Notes; The Qualities of Citizenship; Citizenship of Quality:; Notes; Regimes of Homework in AIDS Care; Imaginations of the Home; Teaching Home-Based AIDS Care (HBAC); Anna and Her Homework; Questions of Responsibility; Imagined and Real Homes; From Biological Survival to Living a Life; The Intimate Relation between Care and Control; Notes; "Home-Based Care Is Not a New Thing"; Home-Based Care; A Meeting at Kagot Development Group; Women's Groups and Health Care in Historical Context. 
505 0 |a Women's Groups, Patron-Client Politics, and the Distribution of ResourcesDomestic Distinction; Notes; Technologies of Hope; The Cancer Crisis; Hospital Ethnography of Cancer Management; Initial Hope in the Cancer Ward; Maintaining Hope in the Face of Uncertainty; Unpopular Decisions; Protecting the Hospital as a Symbol of Hope; Redefining Therapy; Curing, Caring, and Safeguarding Hope; Notes; The Publics of the New Public Health; Biomedical Authority; Demotic Concerns; Life Conditions and Body Ideals; Eating; Exercise; The Therapeutic Marketplace; The Media; The Logic of Life Conditions. 
505 0 |a NotesNavigating "Global Health" in East Africa City; Global Health and the Urban Landscape; The Projectification of Health Care; Biopolitical Regimes and Relations?; From the Clinic to the "Community"; "We Are HIV Graduates"; Developing Futures?; Notes; The Archipelago of Public Health; Living in the New Landscape of Public Health; Notes; Bibliography; Contributors; Index. 
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