[Read ebook] Free Market Tuberculosis: Managing Epidemics in Post-Soviet Georgia
| #2596834 in Books | 2013-02-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.90 x.70 x6.00l,.80 | File Name: 0826518931 | 240 pages
||0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| An excellent resource for teaching contemporary anthropology!|By Harvey|Anthropologist Erin Koch explores the intersection of the nation's extensive medical history, the effects of Soviet control, and the highly standardized yet poorly regulated treatments promoted by the World Health Organization.||"Koch shows that the story of tuberculosis in Georgia today is one of structured uncertainties and competing logics of expertise amid the implementation of market-based health service, all of which are embedded in a vibrant culture of medicine that significan
The Soviet health care infrastructure and its tuberculosis-control system were anchored in biomedicine, but the dire resurgence of tuberculosis at the end of the twentieth century changed how experts in post-Soviet nations--and globally--would treat the disease. As Free Market Tuberculosis dramatically demonstrates, market reforms and standardized treatment programs have both influenced and undermined the management of tuberculosis care in the now-independent cou...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Free Market Tuberculosis: Managing Epidemics in Post-Soviet Georgia | Erin Koch. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.