Your Pocket Is What Cures You : : The Politics of Health in Senegal / / Ellen E Foley.
In the wake of structural adjustment programs in the 1980s and health reforms in the 1990s, 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, anthro...
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Foley, Ellen E, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Your Pocket Is What Cures You : The Politics of Health in Senegal / Ellen E Foley. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2009] ©2009 1 online resource (216 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Studies in Medical Anthropology Frontmatter -- 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In the wake of structural adjustment programs in the 1980s and health reforms in the 1990s, 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. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Medical anthropology Senegal Saint-Louis Region. Medical anthropology Senegal Saint-Louis (Region). Medical care Senegal Saint-Louis Region. Medical care Senegal Saint-Louis (Region). Medical economics Senegal Saint-Louis Region. Medical economics Senegal Saint-Louis (Region). Medical policy Senegal Saint-Louis Region. Medical policy Senegal Saint-Louis (Region). Public health Senegal Saint-Louis Region. Public health Senegal Saint-Louis (Region). SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110688610 print 9780813546674 https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813549071 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813549071 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780813549071.jpg |
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