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Social Suffering and Biopower in Global Health


Social Suffering by Arthur Kleinman, Veena Das, Margaret Lock

Recognizing that neither the cultural resources of tradition nor those of modernity's various programs seem adequate to cope with social suffering in our times, ...

Social Suffering, Biopower, and Local Moral Worlds A. - SlidePlayer

4.This concept is meant to be omnibus and to mix together social and health problems of every sort : for example coordinating social policy with health policy ...

Theorizing global health - João Biehl

In the Ebola outbreak, sociocultural knowledge proved crucial to understanding the epidemic and enacting containment efforts. Social scientists on the ground ...

Medical Anthropology and Mental Health: - Marcia Inhorn

of distress and disease?); and social theory (Stigma; total institutions; biopower and ... (1) What is the difference between social suffering and mental health ...

Chapter 20: Sociologies of public health and health promotion in

Is health education good for you?: Re-thinking health education through the concept of bio-power. ... Global health inequities: A sociological ...

Global biopolitics and the history of world health

This substantive history of world health and world population is analysed as sites for thinking about global bio-politics; and the article looks seriously at ...

The Praxis of Social Suffering | California Scholarship Online

Kleinman, and B. Saraceno, “Protecting the Human Rights of People with Mental Illnesses: A Call to Action for Global Mental Health,” in Mental Health and Human ...

Right to health, biopower and bioethics - SciELO

The right to health is being more and more affected by the Biopower new configurations, no more only determined by the State, as in Foucault's analyses, but ...

Anthropology and Global Public Health - BALM

It also includes structural critiques relevant to global health and social policy (social suffering, bio-power, structural violence, and capabilities theory).

Illness and the Politics of Social Suffering: Towards a Critical ...

In sum, Global Mental Health actors foster new institutional, epistemological and, by disseminating their concepts and values in societies, ...

Review Essay: The Politics of Global Health | PoLAR

The authors urge us to look beneath the surface of global health's success stories, propped up by quantitative evidence and sentimental ...

Case Studies in Global Health: Biosocial Perspectives - Academia.edu

The overall purpose of the course is to expand your critical understanding of the social, market, environmental, and biotechnological dimensions of health ...

Academic Learning Community: Theorizing Global Health Title ...

Examples include: history, postcolonial, and world systems theory; production of knowledge, (bio)power, and subjectivities; social suffering and embodied ...

Health, risk and 'social suffering' | Request PDF - ResearchGate

This editorial provides a summary account of research and writing on 'social suffering.' Some of the ways in which this body of work might be approached ...

MSWELGS 2189 - Anthropological Perspectives in Global Health

It also includes structural critiques relevant to global health and social policy (social suffering, bio-power, structural violence and capabilities theory).

3 Structural Violence, Poverty, and Social Suffering - Oxford Academic

In an effort to address violence as a global public health problem, the World Health Organization (WHO), developed a typology (Krug et al. 2002) that focuses on ...

Unpacking Global Health : A Critical Sociology of Knowledge III

This concept is meant to be omnibus and to mix together social and health problems of every sort : for example coordinating social policy with ...

Pandemic, Poverty, and Power: Biosocial Ethics of Global Solidarity ...

deaths and human suffering. The SDH can be better explained through a ... 16 “Social Determinants of Health,” World Health Organization, accessed 15 ...

An Anthropology of Structural Violence1 - jstor

New York: Columbia University Press. green, r. h. 1991. Politics, power, and poverty: Health for all in 2000 in the Third World? Social Science and Medicine 32:.

Introduction: How Mental Health Matters | Daedalus - MIT Press Direct

... social suffering of individuals living with a mental health condition. ... The Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical ...