Unhealthy Health Policy A Critical Anthropological Examination

This new collection turns a critical anthropological eye on the nature of health policy internationally. The authors reveal the prevailing social inequalities that often represent significant threats to the health and well being of the poor, ethnic minorities, and women. The authors define an anthropology of policy concerned with decision-making and the impact of health policy on human lives. It will be a critical resource for researchers and practitioners in medical anthropology, medical sociology, public policy, and public health care. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Cesar E. Abadia-Barrero, D.M.D., D.M.Sc., For the academic year 2003-2004, he holds appointments as a postdoctoral research fellow at both the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School Francisco Armada, M.D., Ph.D., MPH, is a health officer at the Ministry of Health in Venezuela Hans A. Baer, Ph.D., is professor of anthropology and sociology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Katherine E. Bliss, Ph.D., is associate professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Philippe Bourgois, Ph.D., is a cultural anthropologist who is professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco David Buchanan, DrPH, is a full professor of community health education at the School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Arachu Castro, Ph.D., MPH, is instructor in medical anthropology in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School Claudia Chaufan, M.D., is a medical doctor specialized in diabetes and obesity, a diabetes educator, and a medical writer from Buenos Aires, Argentina Robbie Davis-Floyd, Ph.D., is a senior research fellow at the Department of Anthropology, University of Texas Austin Alice Desclaux, M.D., Ph.D. after some years of practice in public health, turned to medical anthropology, starting with a Ph.D. on the social treatment of AIDS in children by the health system in Burkina Faso. Since 1993, she has been working on AIDS mainly in Africa Paul Farmer, M.D., Ph.D., has worked in infectious-disease control in the Americas for nearly two decades. He is the founding director of Partners In Health Didier Fassin, M.D., Ph.D., is a sociologist, anthropologist, and medical doctor Robert Heimer, Ph.D., is the director of the Yale Emerging Infections Program Sarah Horton, Ph.D., received her Ph.D. joined the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard University as a postdoctoral fellow in the fall of 2003 Kristen Jacklin, M.A., is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at McMaster University Salmaan Keshavjee, M.D., Ph.D., is a researcher in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, and the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston Kaveh Khoshnood, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at Yale School of Public Health, an investigator at the Yale Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) Catherine Hodge McCoid is a professor of anthropology who has taught at Central Missouri State University since 1971 Carles Muntaner, M.D., Ph.D., a native of Barcelona, Spain, is professor at the Department of Family and Community Health, University of Maryland; the Department of Mental Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health; and the University of Toronto's Institute for Work and Health Joan E. Paluzzi, Ph.D., R.N., is a medical anthropologist James Pfeiffer, Ph.D., MPH, is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University, in Cleveland, Ohio Imrana Qadeer, Ph.D., is a professor of Public Health at the Center of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India Susan Shaw, Ph.D., was an ethnographer on the Syringe Access, Use, and Discard (SAUD) project and now works for the Hispanic Health Council Merrill Singer, Ph.D., is the associate director of the Hispanic Health Council (HHC) and director of the HHC's Center for Community Health Research in Hartford, Connecticut Tom Stopka, MHS, is a research scientist with the HIV Prevention Research and Evaluation Section of the California State Office of AIDS in Sacramento Wei Teng, Ph.D., is now a senior statistical analyst at Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale New Haven Health System, New Haven, Connecticut Graham A. Tobin, Ph.D. is professor of geography at the University of South Florida (USF) Fouzieyha Towghi, MPH, is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine with the joint program of medical anthropology at the Universities of California in San Francisco and in Berkeley Nalini Visvanathan, Ph.D., MPH, is on the faculty of the College of Public and Community Service at the University of Massachusetts Boston William G. Wagner, M.A., is affiliated with the Anthropology Department at the University of New Mexico and is currently completing his dissertation Howard Waitzkin, M.D., Ph.D., is professor of Family and Community Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Sociology at the University of New Mexico Wayne Warry, Ph.D., is an applied medical anthropologist and associate professor, Department of Anthropology, McMaster University Linda Whiteford, Ph.D., MPH, is a professor of anthropology and chair of the Anthropology Department at the University of South Florida (USF) Cathleen E. Willging, Ph.D., is a scientist at the Behavioral Health Research Center of the Southwest and teaches in the Masters of Public Health Program at the University of New Mexico