Governing How We Care

Author: Susan J. Shaw
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1439906831
Category: Medical

Governing How We Care: Contesting Community and Defining Difference in U.S. Public Health Programs

As local governments and organizations assume more responsibility for ensuring the public health, identity politics play an increasing yet largely unexamined role in public and policy attitudes toward local problems. Download Governing How We Care medical books for free.
In Governing How We Care, medical anthropologist Susan Shaw examines the relationship between government and citizens using case studies of needle exchange and Welfare-to-Work programs to illustrate the meanings of cultural difference, ethnicity, and inequality in health care. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted over six years in a small New England city, Shaw presents critical perspectives on public health intervention efforts. She looks at online developments in health care and makes important correlations between poverty Get Governing How We Care our bestseller medical books.

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In Governing How We Care, medical anthropologist Susan Shaw examines the relationship between government and citizens using case studies of needle exchange and Welfare-to-Work programs to illustrate the meanings of cultural difference, ethnicity, and inequality in health care She looks at online developments in health care and makes important correlations between poverty

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