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The Legitimacy of Healthcare and Public Health Anthropological Perspectives

The complex, highly problematic, often thorny dynamics of trust and authority are central to the anthropological study of legitimacy. In this book, this sine qua non runs across the in-depth examination of the ways in which healthcare and public health are managed by the authorities and experienced...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pardo, Italo (Editor), Prato, Giuliana B. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
Series:Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology
Subjects:
Ethnology
Ethnography
Political Anthropology
Governance And Government
Medical Anthropology
Health Care
Political Science
Political And Economic Anthropology
Economic Anthropology
Medical Care
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction—On Legitimacy. Healthcare and Public Safety
  • Chapter 2. Health Inequalities and Ethics of Responsibility: A Comparative Ethnography
  • Chapter 3. Misgovernance Kills: Italian Evidence
  • Chapter 4. The Fragility of Legitimacy: Access to Health Care in Manantali, Mali. Chapter 5. "I Chose this ‘Other Way’": An Ethnographic Approach to Medical Pluralism Within the Context of Greek Cancer Care
  • Chapter 6. Covid-19 Pandemic, Hydroxychloroquine and Healthcare System in Turkey
  • Chapter 7. Negotiating Power over Human Bodies: Populism, People and the Politics of Health in Delhi
  • Chapter 8. The Poverty of Opportunity: Where Are We Going; Where Have We Been
  • Chapter 9. The Views of Selected Tennesseans on Universal Health Care as a Right
  • Chapter 10. The Biopolitics of Complementary Spiritual Healing in South Korea and Israel
  • Chapter 11. Health Sovereignty in West-Central Mexico: Legitimacy from the Grassroots
  • Chapter 12. Disabled People and Access to the Labour Market: The Case of Greece
  • Chapter 13. Managing Public Health in a Fragile Consociation: Lebanon between Wars, Explosions and the Covid-19 Pandemic
  • Chapter 14. Interrogating the Public Health Approach: Lessons from the Field of Urban Violence
  • Chapter 15. Maintaining the Health of the Public: Containing the Threat of Terrorist Resurgence in Contemporary Peru

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