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Blind spot : how neoliberalism infiltrated global health / Salmaan Keshavjee ; foreword by Paul Farmer.
Penn Museum Library RA395.T3 K47 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keshavjee, Salmaan, 1970- author.
- Series:
- California series in public anthropology ; 30.
- California series in public anthropology ; 30
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical policy--Tajikistan.
- Medical policy.
- Tajikistan.
- Health Services--economics.
- Global Health.
- Health Policy.
- Health Services Administration--economics.
- Organizations.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- Medical Subjects:
- Health Services--economics.
- Global Health.
- Health Policy.
- Health Services Administration--economics.
- Organizations.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- Tajikistan.
- Physical Description:
- xxxviii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2014]
- Summary:
- 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. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: a world transformed
- Health in the time of the U.S.S.R. : a window into the communist moral world
- Seeking help at the end of empire : a transnational lifeline for Badakhshan
- The health crisis in Badakhshan : sickness and misery at the end of empire
- Minding the gap? the revolving drug fund
- Bretton Woods to Bamako : how free-market orthodoxy infiltrated the international aid movement
- From Bamako to Badakhshan : neoliberalism's "transplanting mechanism"
- Privatizing health services : "reforming" the old world
- The aftermath: ideological success/program failure
- Reflections on global health : reframing the moral dimensions of engagement.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-230) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Phi Beta Kappa Library Trust Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0520282841
- 9780520282834
- 0520282833
- 9780520282841
- OCLC:
- 874961215
- Publisher Number:
- 99966128433
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