The legitimacy of healthcare and public health : anthropological perspectives / Italo Pardo, Giuliana B. Prato, editors.
Pardo, Italo.; Prato, Giuliana B.
2023
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Title The legitimacy of healthcare and public health : anthropological perspectives / Italo Pardo, Giuliana B. Prato, editors.
ISBN 9783031255922 (electronic bk.)
3031255925 (electronic bk.)
3031255917
9783031255915
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25592-2
Publication Details Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-25592-2 doi
Call Number RA971
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.1068
Summary The complex, highly problematic, often thorny dynamics of trust and authority are central to the anthropological study of legitimacy. In this book, this sine qua non runs across the in-depth examination of the ways in which healthcare and public health are managed by the authorities and experienced by the people on the ground in urban Europe, the USA, India, Africa, Latin America and the Far and Middle East. This book brings comparatively together anthropological studies on healthcare and public health rigorously based on in-depth empirical knowledge. Inspired by the current debate on legitimacy, legitimation and de-legitimation, the contributions do not refrain from taking into account the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the health systems under study, but carefully avoid letting this issue monopolise the discussion. This book raises key challenges to our understanding of healthcare practices and the governance of public health. With a keen eye on urban life, its inequalities and the ever-expanding gap between rulers and the ruled, the findings address important questions on the complex ways in which authorities gain, keep, or lose the publics trust. Italo Pardo is Honorary Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Kent, UK. He established and co-edits the journal Urbanities-Journal of Urban Ethnography and co-founded and presides over the not-for-profit association, International Urban Symposium-IUS. Giuliana B. Prato is Honorary Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Kent, UK. She chairs the Commission on Urban Anthropology (IUAES), co-founded the International Urban Symposium-IUS, of which she is Secretary-Treasurer, and co-founded and serves on the Board of Urbanities-Journal of Urban Ethnography.
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Prato, Giuliana B.
Series Palgrave studies in urban anthropology.
Available in Other Form ebook version : 9783031255922
Print version: 9783031255915
LEGITIMACY OF HEALTHCARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH.
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Intro
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction: On Legitimacy, Healthcare and Public Safety
References
Chapter 2: Health Inequalities and Ethics of Responsibility: A Comparative Ethnography
Italy: A National or Regional Health Service?
Regional Disparities and "Health Migration": A Vicious Circle
Variations of Professional Responsibility
The UK: A National Health System Across National Regions
NHS Trust, Charities and Patient Groups: A Symbiotic Relationship
A "Labour of Love": The Role of Nurses

Pandemic Ruptures and "Broken" Public Health Systems
Conclusion: Resilience as a (Misleadingly) Legitimating Argument
References
Chapter 3: Misgovernance Kills: Italian Evidence
A Triple Whammy to the Ordinary Italian
Misgovernance Kills 1: Public Health Care from Right to Commodity to Privilege
Misgovernance Kills 2: Public Health Hazards
Misgovernance Kills 3: Ideologically Misguided Policies
A Blunt Note
References
Video Evidence - Examples
Chapter 4: The Fragility of Legitimacy: Access to Health Care in Manantali, Mali
Legitimacy in Health Care

Mali's Health Care System
Legitimacy in the Early Years of Independence
Structural Adjustment and Innovation in Health Care
Health Care in Manantali
The Situation and Context
New Health Care Institutions
The Legitimacy of Manantali's Health Institutions
Normative Legitimacy
Performance Legitimacy
Process Legitimacy
Conclusion
References
Chapter 5: "I Chose This 'Other Way'": An Ethnographic Approach to Medical Pluralism Within the Context of Greek Cancer Care
Introduction
Cancer and Medical Pluralism in Greece
The Construction of the Biomedical Subject

The Right to (the Right) Choice
The "Otherness" Within and During Medical Pluralism
The Dangerous "Other" and the Right of Choice
Medical Realities Revisited
References
Chapter 6: Covid-19 Pandemic, Hydroxychloroquine, and Healthcare System in Turkey
Introduction
A Miraculous Drug
A Bag of Pills
Drugs as Legal Rights
Legitimacy and Pills
Conclusion
References
Chapter 7: Negotiating Power over Human Bodies: Populism, People and the Politics of Health in Delhi
Introduction
Legitimacy of the Ruler
Populism and the BJP Regime

The Pandemic and Its Aftermath
To Conclude: How Legitimate Is the Present Regime? And for Whom?
References
Chapter 8: The Poverty of Opportunity: Where Are We Going
Where Have We Been
History Repeats Itself
The American Health Care System
Covid-19 and Poverty
The Long Hauler Search for Diagnosis and Treatment
Being Sick and Poor
Economics and the Search for Legitimate Treatment
Conclusion
References
Chapter 9: The Views of Selected Tennesseans on Universal Health Care as a Right
I Had a Dream
Story 1. House and Home
Story 2. So Sue Me

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