fyi...on social and health policies and their inpact on population health around the globe
by P Farmer, M Singer, and A Castro  among others. See TOC below.

Unhealthy Health Policy: A Critical Anthropological Examination


Edited by Arachu Castro and Merrill Singer

Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press, 2004, 384 pp.


        http://www.altamirapress.com/ISBN/0759105111 <http://www.altamirapress.com/ISBN/0759105111>

        This new collection turns a critical anthropological eye on the nature of health policy internationally. The authors reveal that in light of prevailing social inequalities, health policies may intend to protect public health, but in fact they often represent significant structural threats to the health and well being of the poor, ethnic minorities, women, and other subordinate groups. The volume focuses on the "anthropology of policy," which is concerned with the process of decision-making, the influences on decision-makers, and the impact of policy on human lives. This collaboration will be a critical resource for researchers and practitioners in medical anthropology, applied anthropology, medical sociology, minority issues, public policy, and health care issues.

        Table of Contents



                *       Pearls of the Antilles? Public Health in Haiti and Cuba
                        Paul Farmer and Arachu Castro
                *       The Visible Fist of the Market: Health Reforms in Latin America
                        Francisco Armada and Carles Muntaner
                *       International NGOs in the Mozambique Health Sector: The Velvet Glove of Privatization
                        James Pfeiffer
                *       Primary Health Care since Alma Ata: Lost in the Bretton Woods?
                        Joan E. Paluzzi
                *       The Shifting Policies Towards Traditional Midwives: Implications for Reproductive Health Care in Pakistan
                        Fouzieyha Towghi
                *       The Contradictions of a Revolving Drug Fund in Post-Soviet Tajikistan: Selling Medicines to Starving Patients
                        Salmaan Keshavjee
                *       Equity in Access to AIDS Treatment in Africa: Pitfalls amongst Achievements
                        Alice Desclaux
                *       Contracepting at Childbirth: The Integration of International Reproductive Health and Population Policies in Mexico
                        Arachu Castro
                *       How Healthy are Health and Population Policies? The Indian Experience
                        Imrana Qadeer and Nalini Visvanathan
                *       Happy Children with AIDS: The Paradox of a Healthy National Program in an Unequal and Exclusionary Brazil
                        César E. AbadÌa-Barrero
                *       Between Risk and Confession: The Popularization of Syphilis Prophylaxis in Revolutionary Mexico
                        Katherine Elaine Bliss
                *       Saving Lives, Destroying Livelihoods: Emergency Evacuation and Resettlement Policies in Ecuador
                        Linda Whiteford and Graham Tobin
                *       Social Illegitimacy as a Foundation of Health Inequality: How the Political Treatment of Immigrants Illuminates a French Paradox
                        Didier Fassin
                *       The Indian Health Transfer Policy in Canada: Towards Self-Determination or Cost-Containment?
                        Kristen M. Jacklin and Wayne Warry
                *       Land and Rural New Mexican Hispanicsí Mistrust of Federal Programs: The Unintended Consequences of Medicaid Eligibility Rules
                        Sarah Horton
                *       The Death and Resurrection of Medicaid Managed Care for Mental Health Services in New Mexico
                        Cathleen Willging, Howard Waitzkin, and William Wagner
                *       Sugar Blues: A Social Anatomy of the Diabetes Epidemic in the United States
                        Claudia Chaufan
                *       Syringe Access, HIV Risk, and AIDS in Massachusetts and Connecticut: The Health Implications of Public Policy
                        David Buchanan, Merrill Singer, Susan Shaw, Wei Teng, Tom Stopka, Kaveh Khoshnood
                *       Why it is Easier to Get Drugs than Drug Treatment in the United States?
                        Merrill Singer
                *       U.S. Inner City Apartheid and the War on Drugs: Crack among Homeless Heroin Addicts
                        Philippe Bourgois
                *       United States Health Policy on Alternative Medicine: A Case Study in the Cooptation of a Popular Movement
                        Hans A. Baer
                *       Home Birth Emergencies in the United States: The Trouble with Transport
                        Robbie E. Davis-Floyd
                *       Why Is Prevention Not the Focus for Breast Cancer Policy in the Unites States Rather than High-Tech Medical Solutions?
                        Cathy Hodge McCoid



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