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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458222803321

Autore

Foley Ellen E. <1976->

Titolo

Your pocket is what cures you [[electronic resource] ] : the politics of health in Senegal / / Ellen E. Foley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2010

ISBN

1-282-56234-7

9786612562341

0-8135-4907-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (205 p.)

Collana

Studies in medical anthropology

Disciplina

362.109663

Soggetti

Medical anthropology - Senegal - Saint-Louis (Region)

Medical policy - Senegal - Saint-Louis (Region)

Public health - Senegal - Saint-Louis (Region)

Medical care - Senegal - Saint-Louis (Region)

Medical economics - Senegal - Saint-Louis (Region)

Electronic books.

Saint-Louis Region (Senegal) Social conditions

Saint-Louis Region (Senegal) Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-180) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. A Different African Health Story -- 2. A Brief History of Senegal -- 3. Urban and Rural Dilemmas -- 4. Global Health Reform in Saint Louis -- 5. Market-Based Medicine and Shantytown Politics in Pikine -- 6. Knowledge Encounters: Biomedicine, Islam, and Wolof Medicine -- 7. Gender, Social Hierarchy, and Health Practice -- 8. Domestic Disputes and Generational Struggles over Household Health -- 9. Encountering Development in Ganjool -- 10. Believe in God, but Plow Your Field -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index -- About the author

Sommario/riassunto

In the wake of structural adjustment programs in the 1980's and health reforms in the 1990's, the majority of sub-Saharan African governments spend less than ten dollars per capita on health annually, and many Africans have limited access to basic medical care. Using a



community-level approach, anthropologist Ellen E. Foley analyzes the implementation of global health policies and how they become intertwined with existing social and political inequalities in Senegal. Your Pocket Is What Cures You examines qualitative shifts in health and healing spurred by these reforms, and analyzes the dilemmas they create for health professionals and patients alike. It also explores how cultural frameworks, particularly those stemming from Islam and Wolof ethnomedicine, are central to understanding how people manage vulnerability to ill health. While offering a critique of neoliberal health policies, Your Pocket Is What Cures You remains grounded in ethnography to highlight the struggles of men and women who are precariously balanced on twin precipices of crumbling health systems and economic decline. Their stories demonstrate what happens when market-based health reforms collide with material, political, and social realities in African societies.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910329407403321

Titolo

Journal of biochemical and microbiological technology and engineering

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Interscience Publishers, ©1959-©1961

ISSN

1547-173X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Soggetti

Biochemistry

Chemical engineering

Microbiology

Bacteriology

Biotechnologie

Zeitschrift

Biochimie - Périodiques

Génie chimique - Périodiques

Microbiologie - Périodiques

Periodical

Periodicals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Title from table of contents (viewed Jan. 10, 2006).