Global Perspectives on Health Care de Eugene B. Gallagher

For undergraduate/graduate-level courses in Medical Sociology. This reader offers a contemporary view of the organization and functioning of health care systems around the world. "

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Introduction: Eugene B. Gallagher and Janardan Subedi.
I. CULTURE AND BIOMEDICINE.
1. Gender and Health: Theoretical Versus Practical Accessibility of Health Care for Women in North India, Anuradha Kumar.
2. Japan's Health Care System: Western and East Asian Influences, James G. Anderson, Renee Oscarson, and Yan Yu.
3. Progress and Constraints of Nursing and Nursing Education in Islamic Societies, Nancy H. Bryant.
4. Dominance and Elitism: The Modern Health Care System in Nepal, Sree Subedi and Janardan Subedi.
5. Culture and Technology in Health Care, as Exemplified in Gulf Arab Medicine, Eugene B. Gallagher.
II. ETHNOMEDICINE.
6. The Case of Hannah Azulai, Illustrating the Confluence of Western and Folk Medicine in an Israeli Immigrant Community, Ofra Greenberg.
7. Ethnomedicine in the Context of Health Care Delivery in Ghana, Kodjo A. Senah.
III. SOCIOPOLITICAL AND REGIONAL DIMENSIONS.
8. Development of Health Policy and Services for Rural Mexico, Margaret S. Sherraden.
9. Health and Development in the Third World: The Political Economy of Infant Mortality in Brazil, Ande Kidanemariam.
10. Demographic and Spatial Aspects of the Health Care Delivery System in Malawi, Ezekiel Kalipeni.
IV. SOCIETAL DISLOCATION.
11. Planning of National Primary Health Care and Prevention Programs: The First Health Insurance Law of Russia, 1991-1993, Irina V. McKeehan.
12. Migrants, Refugees, and Health: Some Policy Implications of Israel's Experience, Judith T. Shuval.
13. Postwar Health Care in Rural El Salvador: Healing the Wounds of War, James V. Spickard and Melissa P. Jameson.
V. COMPARATIVE STUDIES.
14. Medicine as a Profession: Lessons from Some Cross-National Case Studies, Frederic W. Hafferty.
15. Rationing Medical Resources: From Advocacy to Allocation in British and American Nurses, Donna V. Stevenson, Richard M. Levinson, and Nancy J. Thompson.
16. Major Orientations in Japanese Health Care, T. Neal Garland.
17. Society and Indigenous Health Care: The Cases of Nepal and Alaska, Janardan Subedi, Nancy Andes, and Sree Subedi.
18. A Comparison of Nurse Assistants in Nursing Homes in the United States and Ward Assistants for the Elderly in Ghana, Dorothy J. Blackmon, Lawrence A.Kannae, and T. Neal Garland.
19. International Dependency and Health: A Comparative Case Study of Cuba and the Dominican Republic, Annette M. Schwabe.
VI. GLOBAL THEMES.
20. Risk Evaluation of Medical Technology in Global Population Control, Ingar Palmlund.
21. Exploring Medicalization Processes in the Global Context, Eugene B. Gallagher and Joan Ferrante.

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takes a multidisciplinary approach drawing from sociology, anthropology, medical, geography, and public health.
- provides readers with a variety of approaches to health care systems.

provides a international perspective by describing health care systems in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, North America, Latin America, and Europe.

includes coverage of countries undergoing rapid change—Israel (Ch. 6 & 12); Russia (Ch. 11); and El Salvador (Ch. 13).

explores a previously untapped area of both teaching and research interest in international, sociocultural aspects of medicine.

examines how modern medicine must find its place in pre- existing social structures and with pre-scientific beliefs about the human body and its pathologies.
- discusses the instances when modern medicine must compromise with older doctrines and entrenched techniques, as well as the instances when it moves into a vacuum and quickly establishes itself.

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