1.

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.

2.

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).

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910974301903321

Autore

Ingham Patricia

Titolo

The language of gender and class : transformation in the Victorian novel / / Patricia Ingham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; New York, : Routledge, 1996

ISBN

1-134-89134-2

1-134-89135-0

1-280-32131-8

0-203-41869-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Disciplina

823.809

823.809355

823/.809

Soggetti

English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Literature and society - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Social classes in literature

Sex role in literature

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. 183-189) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Language of Gender and Class Transformation in the Victorian Novel; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on references; 1 The Representation of Society in the  Early Nineteenth Century; 2 The Interlocked Coding of Class and Gender; 3 Shirley; 4 North and South; 5 Hard Times; 6 Changes in the Representation of Class in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century; 7 Felix Holt; 8 The Unclassed; 9 Jude The Obscure; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Language of Gender and Class challenges widely-held assumptions about the study of the Victorian novel. Lucid, multilayered and cogently



argued, this volume will provoke debate and encourage students and scholars to rethink their views on nineteenth-century literature. Examining six novels, Patricia Ingham demonstrates that none of the writers, male or female, easily accept stereotypes of gender and class. The classic figures of Angel and Whore are reassessed and modified. And the result, argues Ingham, is that the treatment of gender by the late nineteenth century is released