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Your Pocket Is
What Cures You
Price: $23.95
Subtitle: The Politics of
Health in Senegal
Author:
Ellen E. Foley
Subject: Anthropology,
Health and Medicine
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4668-1
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4667-4
Pages:
216 pages
Publication Date: January 2010
Series:
Studies
in Medical Anthropology
Praise for Your Pocket Is What Cures You
"Foley's book offers a
compelling and compassionate presentation of the local consequences of
health reform as they have unfolded in Senegal. This thoroughly
accessible work will be a welcome addition to the literature in global
health and medical anthropology."—Craig R. Janes,
Director of Global Health Programs, Simon Fraser University, Canada
"Ellen Foley masterfully
combines engaging ethnography of two sites in coastal northwest Senegal
with timely analysis of neoliberal healthcare reform and its human
costs."—John Janzen, Professor at University of Kansas-Lawrence
Description:
In the wake of structural adjustment programs in the 1980s
and health reforms in the 1990s, the majority of sub-Saharan African
governments spend less than ten dollars per capita on health annually,
and many Africans have limited access to basic medical care. Using a
community-level approach, anthropologist Ellen E. Foley analyzes the
implementation of global health policies and how they become
intertwined with existing social and political inequalities in Senegal.
Your Pocket
Is What Cures You examines qualitative shifts in health and
healing spurred by these reforms, and analyzes the dilemmas they create
for health professionals and patients alike. It also explores how
cultural frameworks, particularly those stemming from Islam and Wolof
ethnomedicine, are central to understanding how people manage
vulnerability to ill health.
While offering a critique of neoliberal health policies, Your Pocket Is What Cures You
remains grounded in ethnography to highlight the struggles of men and
women who are precariously balanced on twin precipices of crumbling
health systems and economic decline. Their stories demonstrate what
happens when market-based health reforms collide with material,
political, and social realities in African societies.
About the Author:
Ellen E. Foley is an assistant professor of
international development and social change at Clark University.
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