Blind spot : how neoliberalism infiltrated global health
Salmaan Keshavjee (Author), Paul Farmer
Neoliberalism has been the defining paradigm in global health since the latter part of the twentieth century. What started as an untested and unproven theory that the creation of unfettered markets would give rise to political democracy led to policies that promoted the belief that private markets were the optimal agents for the distribution of social goods, including health care. A vivid illustration of the infiltration of neoliberal ideology into the design and implementation of development programs, this case study, set in post-Soviet Tajikistan's remote eastern province of Badak
eBook, English, 2014
University of California Press, Oakland, California, 2014
Conference papers and proceedings
1 online resource (xxxviii, 240 pages) : illustrations
9780520958739, 9781322008363, 052095873X, 1322008361
890756534
Introduction: a world transformed
Health in the time of the U.S.S.R. : a window into the communist moral world
Seeking help at the end of empire : a transnational lifeline for Badakhshan
The health crisis in Badakhshan : sickness and misery at the end of empire
Minding the gap? the revolving drug fund
Bretton Woods to Bamako : how free-market orthodoxy infiltrated the international aid movement
From Bamako to Badakhshan : neoliberalism's "transplanting mechanism"
Privatizing health services : "reforming" the old world
The aftermath: ideological success/program failure
Reflections on global health : reframing the moral dimensions of engagement
English