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Author Nichter, Mark.

Title Global health : why cultural perceptions, social representations, and biopolitics matter / Mark Nichter
Published Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 268 pages) : illustrations
Contents Perceptions of ethnophysiology matter -- Representations of illness causality and vectors that transmit disease -- Why is research on local illness categories important? -- Perceptions of pharmaceuticals and quality of care -- Representations that frame health and development policy -- Representations of health status and social formations -- NGOs, social capital, and the politics of the possible -- Toward a next generation of social science research in global health
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-260) and index
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Subject World health.
World health -- Social aspects
Biopolitics.
Cross-cultural studies.
Medical policy.
Social medicine.
Social sciences.
Global Health
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Health Policy
Social Medicine
Social Sciences
social sciences.
World health.
World health -- Social aspects.
Weltbevölkerung
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Gesundheitsförderung
Biopolitics.
Medizinsoziologie
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007045614
ISBN 9780816542284
0816542287