Global health : why cultural perceptions, social representations, and biopolitics matter / Mark Nichter.

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2008], ©2008.

xi, 268 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-260) and index.

Perceptions of ethnophysiology matter -- Representations of illness causality and vectors that transmit disease -- Why is research on local illness categories important? -- Perceptions of pharmaceuticals and quality of care -- Representations that frame health and development policy -- Representations of health status and social formations -- NGOs, social capital, and the politics of the possible -- Toward a next generation of social science research in global health.