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...Roger Jeffery Primary Health Care and Traditional Practitioners . By D. N. Kakar . New Delhi : Sterling Publishers , 1988 . xiv, 195 pp. Rs 125.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 183 Much anthropological literature...

... and postwar establishment of the World Health Organization; Cold War medical diplomacy; and Chinese models of primary health care during the 1970s. These case studies together show that Chinese physicians and administrators helped shape concepts and practices of “global health” even before that term rose...

... concludes by making proposals for policy reform, stressing the potential role of unqualified practitioners in primary health care. Specifically he argues for a realistic approach to the fact that these practitioners supply up to 75 percent of all primary health care in rural India. As he says, it is better...

... to help health planners manage and evaluate programs based on that vague phrase, "community participation." Its strength lies in its clear presentation of concepts, such as community participation and primary health care, and their historical development. Despite a somewhat simplistic writing style...

... to produce a convincing portrait of a complex process. The book is a timely contribution to medicine, as well. The now infamous health care financing crisis in the United States has led to a renewed interest in primary health care and preventive medicine. The case at hand is rich in examples...

... discourses on health which coexist in Whittaker s study communities: indigenous health beliefs based on spirits and humoral balance and an allopathic (cosmopolitan or Western ) medical system which was introduced by the Thai government through the establishment of a system of hospitals and primary health...

... planning center at the village level in "Posyandu [Pos Pelayanan Terpadu]: Theory and Practice." Such centers, started in 1985, combine primary health care and family planning services with community participation in the form of Village Health Worker volunteers. The services of such a center are designated...

... constitute the section on present-day health care. Nathalie Kollmann and Corrie van Veggel analyze the actual operation of an integrated health and family planning center at the village level in "Posyandu [Pos Pelayanan Terpadu]: Theory and Practice." Such centers, started in 1985, combine primary health...

... Foundation (BAIF) in India. Fazle Abed, an accountant by training, is commended for establishing the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) which organized rural institutions including education (literacy programs) and primary health care following its initial flood rehabilitation programs. Muhammad...

... to medicine, as well. The now infamous health care financing crisis in the United States has led to a renewed interest in primary health care and preventive medicine. The case at hand is rich in examples of the difficulties this approach faces: the professional medical culture is heavily curative in outlook...

... advances in family planning, primary health care, education, and self-sufficiency in rice production. At the same time, Vatikiotis exposes ideological conformity, egregious abuses of human rights, the brutal annexation of East Timor, and blatant corruption among Suharto's closest allies and his own family...

... (BRAC) which organized rural institutions including education (literacy programs) and primary health care following its initial flood rehabilitation programs. Muhammad Yunus, an economics professor, created a banking system for the rural poor in Bangladesh that evolved into Grameen Bank Prakalpa (GBP...

... peoples will learn about a heretofore neglected group. Although the reader might sometimes wish for a more elaborate analysis, the book is a workmanlike ethnography of the Dhund of Murree district. GREGORY C. KOZLOWSKI DePaul University Primary Health Care and Traditional Practitioners. By D. N . KAKAR...

...Jin-kyung Park Nevertheless, Imperatives of Care should be lauded as the first English-language monographic study on the history of Korean women and medicine in the early twentieth century. The book is well supported by an impressive range of primary sources, including government statistical...

... shaped both daily practices and state policies from the height of socialist construction to the present period. At the height of socialist construction in Vietnam, contrary the common assertion of the universal access to free childcare, education, and health care (see, e.g., London 2011b : 70, 72...

... Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 Mercedes Planta's monograph seeks to track the development of traditional medicine in the Philippines from the sixteenth through the mid-twentieth century. It features information on Philippine health paradigms, midwifery, massage, bone setting, and the historical...

.... $24.95. The Health of China: Current Conflicts in Medical and Human Services for One Billion People. By RUTH SIDEL and VICTOR W. SIDEL. Boston: Beacon, 1982. xix, 251 pp. Appendixes, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $13.50. In the last decade, a number of studies of Chinas health care system have been written...

... of the Japanese health care system. More details are in the author's Containing Health-Care Costs in Japan (University of Michigan Press, 1996) and in Aki Yoshikawa et al. (eds Health Economics ofJapan (University of Tokyo Press, 1996). The central issue is to explain Japan's high level of health at relatively...

... of scientific knowledge. Manderson situates medical science, nutrition, and the culture of health care within the colonial enterprise and reflects on the integral relation of these attitudes and bodies of knowledge to the other colonial agendas of conquest, control, and profit. Her story is a dismal one. Rarely...

...Erik Martinez Kuhonta Achieving Access: Professional Movements and the Politics of Health Universalism . By Joseph Harris . Ithaca, N.Y. : ILR Press , 2017 . xiv, 268 pp. ISBN: 9781501709968 (cloth). Democratizing Health Care: Welfare State Building in Korea and Thailand . By Illan...