Ian Harper

Development and Public Health in the Himalaya (eBook, ePUB)

Reflections on healing in contemporary Nepal

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Engaging with a range of public health issues, this book charts important social and political transitions in Nepal through the lens of medicine. It focuses on mission health care institutions, tuberculosis as a sight of ethnographic inquiry and medical intervention, the pharmaceuticalization of mental health and public health, development ideologies and the attempted creation of modern subjects and citizens to advance the health of the nation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317918882
• Artikelnr.: 40447350

Autorenporträt

Ian Harper is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.