Biomedical Hegemony and Democracy in South Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Biomedical Hegemony and Democracy in South Africa write by Ngambouk Vitalis Pemunta. This book was released on 2020-12-29. Biomedical Hegemony and Democracy in South Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Biomedical Hegemony and Democracy in South Africa Ngambouk Vitalis Pemunta and Tabi Chama-James Tabenyang unpack the contentious South African government’s post-apartheid policy framework of the ‘‘return to tradition policy’’. The conjuncture between deep sociopolitical crises, witchcraft, the ravaging HIV/AIDS pandemic and the government’s initial reluctance to adopt antiretroviral therapy turned away desperate HIV/AIDS patients to traditional healers. Drawing on historical sources, policy documents and ethnographic interviews, Pemunta and Tabenyang convincingly demonstrate that despite biomedical hegemony, patients and members of their therapy-seeking group often shuttle between modern and traditional medicine, thereby making both systems of healthcare complementary rather than alternatives. They draw the attention of policy-makers to the need to be aware of ‘‘subaltern health narratives’’ in designing health policy.
Genetic Science and New Digital Technologies
Genetic Science and New Digital Technologies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Genetic Science and New Digital Technologies write by Tina Sikka. This book was released on 2023-10-26. Genetic Science and New Digital Technologies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From health tracking to diet apps to biohacking, technology is changing how we relate to our material, embodied selves. Drawing from a range of disciplines and case studies, this volume looks at what makes these health and genetic technologies unique and explores the representation, communication and internalization of health knowledge. Showcasing how power and inequality are reflected and reproduced by these technologies, discourses and practices, this book will be a go-to resource for scholars in science and technology studies as well as those who study the intersection of race, gender, socio-economic status, sexuality and health.
Communities in Action
Communities in Action - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Communities in Action write by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. This book was released on 2017-04-27. Communities in Action available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
Brazilian Foreign Policy After the Cold War
Brazilian Foreign Policy After the Cold War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Brazilian Foreign Policy After the Cold War write by Sean W. Burges. This book was released on 2009. Brazilian Foreign Policy After the Cold War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since 1992 - the end of the Cold War - Brazil has been slowly and quietly carving a niche for itself in the international community: that is a regional leader in Latin America. How and why is the subject of Sean Burges' investigations.
Indigenous Knowledge and the Integration of Knowledge Systems
Indigenous Knowledge and the Integration of Knowledge Systems - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Indigenous Knowledge and the Integration of Knowledge Systems write by Catherine Alum Odora Hoppers. This book was released on 2002. Indigenous Knowledge and the Integration of Knowledge Systems available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the role of the social and natural sciences in supporting the development of indigenous knowledge systems. It looks at how indigenous knowledge systems can impact on the transformation of knowledge generating institutions such as scientific and higher education institutions on the one hand, and the policy domain on the other.
