Unhealthy Health Policy : A Critical Anthropological Examination

Introduction Anthropology and Health Policy: A Critical Perspective xi Merrill Singer Arachu Castro I. International Institutions and the Setting of Health Policies Pearls of the Antilles? Public Health in Haiti and Cuba 3(26) Paul Farmer Arachu Castro The Visible Fist of the Market: Health Reforms in Latin America 29(14) Francisco Armada Carles Muntaner International NGOs in the Mozambique Health Sector: The ``Velvet Glove'' of Privatization 43(20) James Pfeiffer Primary Health Care since Alma Ata: Lost in the Bretton Woods? 63(16) Joan E. Paluzzi Shifting Policies toward Traditional Midwives: Implications for Reproductive Health Care in Pakistan 79(18) Fouzieyha Towghi The Contradictions of a Revolving Drug Fund in Post-Soviet Tajikistan: Selling Medicines to Starving Patients 97(18) Salmaan Keshavjee Equity in Access to AIDS Treatment in Africa: Pitfalls among Achievements 115(18) Alice Desclaux Contracepting at Childbirth: The Integration of Reproductive Health and Population Policies in Mexico 133(12) Arachu Castro How Healthy Are Health and Population Policies? The Indian Experience 145(18) Imrana Qadeer Nalini Visvanathan II. National Health Policies and Social Exclusion Happy Children with AIDS: The Paradox of a Healthy National Program in an Unequal and Exclusionary Brazil 163(14) Cesar E. Abadia-Barrero Between Risk and Confession: The Popularization of Syphilis Prophylaxis in Revolutionary Mexico 177(12) Katherine Elaine Bliss Saving Lives, Destroying Livelihoods: Emergency Evacuation and Resettlement Policies in Ecuador 189(14) Linda M. Whiteford Graham A. Tobin Social Illegitimacy as a Foundation of Health Inequality: How the Political Treatment of Immigrants Illuminates a French Paradox 203(12) Didier Fassin The Indian Health Transfer Policy in Canada: Toward Self-Determination or Cost Containment? 215(20) Kristen M. Jacklin Wayne Warry Land and Rural New Mexican Hispanics' Mistrust of Federal Programs: The Unintended Consequences of Medicaid Eligibility Rules 235(12) Sarah Horton The Death and Resurrection of Medicaid Managed Care for Mental Health Services in New Mexico 247(10) Cathleen Willging Howard Waitzkin William Wagner Sugar Blues: A Social Anatomy of the Diabetes Epidemic in the United States 257(18) Claudia Chaufan Syringe Access, HIV Risk, and AIDS in Massachusetts and Connecticut: The Health Implications of Public Policy 275(12) David Buchanan Merrill Singer Susan Shaw Wei Teng Tom Stopka Kaveh Khoshnood Robert Heimer Why Is It Easier to Get Drugs than Drug Treatment in the United States? 287(16) Merrill Singer U.S. Inner-City Apartheid and the War on Drugs: Crack among Homeless Heroin Addicts 303(14) Philippe Bourgois III. Impact of Policy on the Practice of Medicine U.S. Health Policy on Alternative Medicine: A Case Study in the Co-optation of a Popular Movement 317(12) Hans A. Baer Home Birth Emergencies in the United States: The Trouble with Transport 329(22) Robbie E. Davis-Floyd Why Is Prevention Not the Focus for Breast Cancer Policy in the Unites States Rather than High-Tech Medical Solutions? 351(12) Cathy Hodge Mccoid Index 363(12) About the Editors and Contributors 375