Topias and Utopias in Health : : Policy Studies / / ed. by Anthony E. Thomas, Stanley R. Ingman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: Araneta, Enrique,; Bymel, Mary Bakszysz,; Danielson, Ross,; Dyck, Robert G.,; Elling, Ray H.,; Epling, Phillip J.,; Falk, Leslie A.,; García, Lourdes,; Guttmacher, Sally,; Gómez, Omar J.,; Hawkins, John N.,; Henderson, Peta,; Ingman, Stanley R.,; James, Herman,; Kehl, Frank,; Lawson, Ian R.,; Lee, Rance P. L.,; Leighton, Dorothea C.,; Nesbitt, James E.,; Onoge, Omafume F.,; Polgar, Steven,; Raikes, A. M.,; Ramos, Carlos,; Reitz, Jeffrey G.,; Ricci, Edmund H.,; Schensul, Stephen L.,; Schoen, Max H.,; Schoepf, Brooke Grundfest,; Singer, Philip,; Stewart, Guy W.,; Thomas, Anthony E.,; Tschannerl, Janaki N.,; Urdaneta, Maria-Luisa,; Vandale, Susan E.,; Yee, Willie Kai,
• HerausgeberIn: Ingman, Stanley R.,; Thomas, Anthony E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1975
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (548 p.) :; Num. figs.

Table of Contents

I-XIV -- Introduction -- PART ONE: INTEREST GROUPS AND THE ALLOCATION OF HEALTH CARE -- Birth Planning: Between Neglect and Coercion -- Political Ideology and Population Policy in Puerto Rico -- Fertility and the “Pill” in a Texas Barrio -- Beyond the Individual for the Practice of Social Medicine: Household Networks as Etiologic-Diagnostic Units -- Human Relations versus Social Relations in Medical Care -- Static Dynamics in Medical Care Organization -- Dialectical Materialism and Community Mental Health Programs: An Analysis of the Lincoln Hospital Department of Psychiatry -- Medical Education in Transition: Tanzania -- Regionalization of Health Services: Sociological Blocks to Realization of an Ideal -- Uses and Abuses of Innovations in the Delivery of Dental Care -- PART TWO: TOPIAS, UTOPIAS, AND COUNTER-UTOPIAS IN HEALTH CARE -- Capitalism and Public Health: A Neglected Theme in the Medical Anthropology of Africa -- Implicit versus Explicit Goals: Medical Care in Argentina -- Environmental Health: Hong Kong Squatters and Engels’ Remarks on the Housing Question -- Health Care in Ukambani Kenya: A Socialist Critique -- Contemporary Health Planning Trends in Tanzania -- A Critical Description of Medical Services in Canada -- Cuban Health Care in Process: Models and Morality in the Early Revolution -- Thesis: Cultural Anthropology and Community Psychiatry; Antithesis: World Health Organization and Basic Health Services; Synthesis: Community Development -- The Regional Approach to Health in the Republic of Slovenia -- Community-Based Medical Care in Three Settings -- Toward a Convergence of Modern Western and Traditional Chinese Medical Services in Hong Kong -- Serve the People: What It Would Mean for Health Care in the United States -- PART THREE: SOCIAL SCIENCE IN HEALTH RESEARCH AND ACTION -- The Role of Applied Research in the Development of Health Services in a Chicano Community in Chicago -- Policy-Evaluative Research: Some Methodological and Political Issues -- Insinuating Social Science into Medical Thinking: Problems and Possibilities -- Use of Social Research in Population Programs: A Case Study of a Policy Debate Among Social Science Experts -- Social Science and Health in Cuba: Ideology, Planning, and Health -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects