When people come first: critical studies in global health

Abstract

Critical Global Health, Joao Biehl and Adriana Petryna 1 I EVIDENCE Overview 23 1A Return to the Magic Bullet? Malaria and Global Health in the Twenty-First Century, Marcos Cueto 30 2Evidence-Based Global Public Health - Subjects, Profits, Erasures, Vincanne Adams 54 3The to or Know Your Rights? Human Rights and a People-Centered Approach to Health Policy, Joseph J. Amon 91 4Children as Victims - The Moral Economy of Childhood in the Times of AIDS, Didier Fassin 109 II INTERVENTIONS Overview 133 5Therapeutic Clientship - Belonging in Uganda's Projectified Landscape of AIDS Care, Susan Reynolds Whyte, Michael A. Whyte, Lotte Meinert, and Jenipher Twebaze 140 6The Struggle for a Public Sector - PEPFAR in Mozambique, James Pfeiffer 166 7The Next Epidemic - Pain and the Politics of Relief in Botswana's Cancer Ward, Julie Livingston 182 8A Salvage Ethnography of the Guinea Worm - Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic in a Disease Eradication Program, Amy Moran-Thomas 207 III MARKETS Overview 243 9Public-Private Mixes - The Market for Anti-Tuberculosis Drugs in India, Stefan Ecks and Ian Harper 252 10Labor Instability and Community Mental Health - The Work of Pharmaceuticals in Santiago, Chile, Clara Han 276 11The Ascetic Subject of Compliance - The Turn to Chronic Diseases in Global Health, Ian Whitmarsh 302 12Legal Remedies - Therapeutic Markets and the Judicialization of the Right to Health, Joao Biehl and Adriana Petryna 325 Afterword - The Peopling of Technologies, Michael M. J. Fischer 347 Contributors 375 Acknowledgments 381 References 385 Index 425