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Global health : why cultural perceptions, social representations, and biopolitics matter / Mark Nichter.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2008.Description: xi, 268 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780816525737 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0816525730 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780816525744 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0816525749 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • RA 441 .N53 2008
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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.
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General circulation General circulation Main Campus Library General Stacks RA 441 .N53 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available A.K. 2016/017985

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-260) and index.

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.

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