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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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | California series in public anthropology ;
30. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: a world transformed
- Health in the time of the U.S.S.R. : a window into the communist moral world
- Seeking help at the end of empire : a transnational lifeline for Badakhshan
- The health crisis in Badakhshan : sickness and misery at the end of empire
- Minding the gap? the revolving drug fund
- Bretton Woods to Bamako : how free-market orthodoxy infiltrated the international aid movement
- From Bamako to Badakhshan : neoliberalism's "transplanting mechanism"
- Privatizing health services : "reforming" the old world
- The aftermath: ideological success/program failure
- Reflections on global health : reframing the moral dimensions of engagement.