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Blind spot : how neoliberalism infiltrated global health / / Salmaan Keshavjee ; foreword by Paul E. Farmer



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Autore: Keshavjee Salmaan <1970-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Blind spot : how neoliberalism infiltrated global health / / Salmaan Keshavjee ; foreword by Paul E. Farmer Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014
©2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (695 p.)
Disciplina: 362.1
Soggetto topico: Health services accessibility
Medical care - Tajikistan
Public health - Tajikistan
Soggetto non controllato: austerity
badakhshan
capitalism
civic
deregulation
economic liberalism
economic liberalization
free market capitalism
free trade
global health
globalization
health
healthcare
neo-liberalism
neoliberal ideology
neoliberalism
nongovernmental organizations
pharmaceuticals
political democracy
poor communities
post soviet union
private sectors
privatization of health care
privatization
reductions in government spending
revolving drug fund
social goods
tajikistan
Persona (resp. second.): FarmerPaul <1959-2022, >
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Map of Tajikistan -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Health in the Time of the USSR -- 3 Seeking Help at the End of Empire -- 4. The Health Crisis in Badakhshan -- 5. Minding the Gap? -- 6. Bretton Woods to Bamako -- 7. From Bamako to Badakhshan -- 8 Privatizing Health Services -- 9 Revealing the Blind Spot -- 10 Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Neoliberalism has been the defining paradigm in global health since the latter part of the twentieth century. What started as an untested and unproven theory that the creation of unfettered markets would give rise to political democracy led to policies that promoted the belief that private markets were the optimal agents for the distribution of social goods, including health care. A vivid illustration of the infiltration of neoliberal ideology into the design and implementation of development programs, this case study, set in post-Soviet Tajikistan's remote eastern province of Badakhshan, draws on extensive ethnographic and historical material to examine a "revolving drug fund" program-used by numerous nongovernmental organizations globally to address shortages of high-quality pharmaceuticals in poor communities. Provocative, rigorous, and accessible, Blind Spot offers a cautionary tale about the forces driving decision making in health and development policy today, illustrating how the privatization of health care can have catastrophic outcomes for some of the world's most vulnerable populations.
Titolo autorizzato: Blind spot  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-95873-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910786771303321
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Serie: California series in public anthropology ; ; 30.