Health and Social Change in International Perspective

by Chen, Lincoln C.; Kleinman, Arthur; Ware, Norma C.

• ISBN13: 9780674385627
• ISBN10: 0674385624
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-10-01
• Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Author Affiliations
Overview
Dynamics and Patterns of Mortality Change	p. 3
Elements for a Theory of the Health Transition	p. 25
Social and Behavioral Pathologies	p. 51
Understanding Morbidity Change	p. 87
Objectivity and Position: Assessment of Health and Well-being	p. 115
An Anthropological Perspective on Objectivity: Observation, Categorization, and the Assessment of Suffering	p. 129
Moral Orientations to Suffering: Legitimation, Power, and Healing	p. 139
Child Mortality Differences, Personal Health Care Practices, and Medical Technology: The United States, 1900-1930	p. 171
The Value of Particularism in the Study of the Cultural, Social, and Behavioral Determinants of Mortality	p. 225
Parallels between the Mortality Transition and the Fertility Transition	p. 251
Illness Behavior and the Health Transition in the Developing World	p. 275
Schooling and Survival: The Impact of Maternal Education on Health and Reproduction in the Third World	p. 303
Patriarchy, Gender and Family Discrimination, and the Role of Women	p. 339
Pragmatism, Robin Hood, and Other Themes: Good Government and Social Well-Being in Developing Countries	p. 375
The Political Economy of Health Transitions in the Third World	p. 413
The Political Economy of Health Financing Strategies in Kenya	p. 453
Promoting Health: Implications for Modern and Developing Nations	p. 471
Responding to Health Transitions: From Research to Action	p. 491
Index	p. 503
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