An anthropology of biomedicine by Margaret M Lock
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3
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2010
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310
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"An Anthropology of Biomedicine is an exciting new introduction to biomedicine and its global implications. Focusing on the ways in which the application of biomedical technologies bring about radical changes to societies at large, cultural anthropologist Margaret Lock and her co-author physician and medical anthropologist Vinh-Kim Nguyen develop and integrate the thesis that the human body in health and illness is the elusive product of nature and culture that refuses to be pinned down. It introduces biomedicine from an anthropological perspective, exploring the entanglement of material bodies with history, environment, culture, and politics; develops and integrates an original theory: that the human body in health and illness is not an ontological given but a moveable, malleable entity; makes extensive use of historical and contemporary ethnographic materials around the globe to illustrate the importance of this methodological approach; integrates key new research data with more classical material, covering the management of epidemics, famines, fertility and birth, by military doctors from colonial times on; and uses numerous case studies to illustrate concepts such as the global commodification of human bodies and body parts, modern forms of population, and the extension of biomedical technologies into domestic and intimate domains."--Publisher's description.
The republic of therapy : triage and sovereignty in West Africa's time of AIDS by Vinh-Kim Nguyen
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3
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2010
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122
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Governing health systems in Africa(
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6
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2008
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117
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"Drawing on various disciplinary perspectives, this book re-focuses the debate on what makes a good health system, with a view to clarifying the uses of social science research in thinking about health care issues in Africa. The explosion of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the persistence of malaria as a major killer, and the resurgence of diseases like tuberculosis which were previously under control, have brought about changes in the health system, with implications for its governance, especially in view of the diminished capacity of the public health facilities to cope with a complex range of expanded needs. Government responsibilities and objectives in the health sector have been redefined, with private sector entities (both for profit and not-for profit) playing an increasingly visible role in health care provisions. The reasons for collaborative patterns vary, but chronic under-funding of publicly financed health services is often an important factor. Processes of decentralisation and health sector reforms have had mixed effects on health care system performance; while private health insurance markets and private clinics are pointers to a growing stratification of the health market, in line with the intensified income and social differentiation that has occurred over the last two decades.These developments call for health sector reforms." -- Book cover.
An anthropology of biomedicine by Margaret Lock
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2
editions published
in
2010
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English
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22
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An Anthropology of Biomedicine an Introduction by Margaret Lock
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1
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2006
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8
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An Anthropology of Biomedicine is an exciting new introduction to biomedicine and its global implications. Focusing on the ways in which the application of biomedical technologies bring about radical changes to societies at large, cultural anthropologist Margaret Lock and her co-author physician and medical anthropologist Vinh-Kim Nguyen develop and integrate the thesis that the human body in health and illness is the elusive product of nature and culture that refuses to be pinned down.: Introduces biomedicine from an anthropological perspective, exploring the entanglement of material bodies w.
Anthropology, inequality, and disease : a review by Nguyen Vinh Kim
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1
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2003
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2
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The fourth wave : violence, gender, culture, and HIV in the 21st century(
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1
edition published
in
2009
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English
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2
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Sida, ONG et la politique du témoignage en Afrique de l'Ouest by Nguyen Vinh Kim
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1
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2002
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French
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1
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The fourth wave violence, gender, culture & HIV in the 21st century by Vinh-Kim Nguyen
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1
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in
2008
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English
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