Unhealthy Health Policy: A Critical Anthropological Examination by ROBBIE E. DAVIS-FLOYD, Howard Waitzkin, Graham A. Tobin, Sarah Horton, Kristen M. Jacklin, David Buchanan, Kaveh Khoshnoo, Carles Muntaner, Katherine Elaine Bliss, Imrana Qadeer, Fouzieyha Towghi, Francisco Armada, Salmaan Keshavjee, Joan E. Paluzzi, Cesar E. Abadia-Barrero, Nalini Visvanathan, Hans A. Baer, Wayne Warry, Tom Stopka, Paul Farmer, Cathleen Willging, Claudia Chaufan, William Wagner, Cathy Hodge McCoid, James Pfeiffer, Linda M. Whiteford, Merrill Singer, Philippe Bourgois, Susan Shaw, Alice Desclaux, Arachu Castro, Wei Teng, Didier Fassin

Unhealthy Health Policy: A Critical Anthropological Examination

ROBBIE E. DAVIS-FLOYD, Howard Waitzkin, Graham A. Tobin, Sarah Horton, Kristen M. Jacklin, David Buchanan, Kaveh Khoshnoo, Carles Muntaner, Katherine Elaine Bliss, Imrana Qadeer, Fouzieyha Towghi, Francisco Armada, Salmaan Keshavjee, Joan E. Paluzzi, Cesar E. Abadia-Barrero, Nalini Visvanathan, Hans A. Baer, Wayne Warry, Tom Stopka, Paul Farmer, Cathleen Willging, Claudia Chaufan, William Wagner, Cathy Hodge McCoid, James Pfeiffer, Linda M. Whiteford, Merrill Singer, Philippe Bourgois, Susan Shaw, Alice Desclaux, Arachu Castro, Wei Teng, Didier Fassin

408 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

informative reflective medium-paced

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This new collection turns a critical anthropological eye on the nature of health policy internationally. The authors reveal that in light of prevailing social inequalities, health policies may intend to protect public health, but in fact they ofte...

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