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One blue child : asthma, responsibility, and the politics of global health /
Radical changes in our understanding of health and healthcare are reshaping twenty-first-century personhood. In the last few years, there has been a great influx of public policy and biometric technologies targeted at engaging individuals in their own health, increasing personal responsibility, and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | Anthropology of policy (Stanford, Calif.)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : taking responsibility for asthma : new kinds of people, new kinds of health
- Democratizing knowledge : patients caught between compliance and self-management
- Domestic experiments : when parents become "half a doctor"
- Patient agency, personal responsibility and the upholding of medical expertise
- Knowledge, discipline, and domesticity : the work of raising healthy children
- Body, breath, and mind : subjugated knowledge and alternative therapeutics
- The best holiday ever : the pleasures and pains of spa cures and summer camps
- Redistributing responsibility among states, companies, and citizens : struggles in the steel heart of the republic
- Conclusion : problematizing asthma.