No More to Spend - Neglect Construction of Scarcity in Malawi s History of Health Care

Using the political and medical history of Malawi as a fundamental example, Luke Messac explains relationship between a nation's political history and its approaches to health care.

List of contents

• Abbreviations


• Acknowledgements


• Foreword


• Paul Farmer


• Introduction: The Construction of Scarcity


• Chapter 1: Drugs for the Tengatenga, 1861-1919


• Chapter 2: "Territories of Vast Potentiality," 1919-30


• Chapter 3: "We Have to Wait for Riots and Disturbances," 1931-41


• Chapter 4: Health in Wartime Development and Postwar Visions, 1941-1952


• Chapter 5: "The Partnership Between a Rider and His Horse," 1953-1963


• Chapter 6: A Freedom to Die for, 1964-1982


• Chapter 7: "Vaccines or Latrines?" 1983-2016


• Conclusion


• Bibliography

About the author

Luke Messac is a resident in emergency medicine at Brown University. He received his M.D. and Ph.D. (History and the Sociology of Science) from the University of Pennsylvania.

Summary

Using the political and medical history of Malawi as a fundamental example, Luke Messac explains relationship between a nation's political history and its approaches to health care.

Additional text

Messac has created an engaging and lively study of how powerful people make scarcity look inevitable. By carefully examining how international and national policy has affected health care spending in a single state, he's able to show both the human cost of longstanding patterns of underfunding and the means by which people have sometimes forced their leaders - colonial and postcolonial - to do better.

Product details

• Authors: Luke Messac, Luke (Resident Physician Messac
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780197626603
• ISBN: 978-0-19-762660-3
• No. of pages: 294
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, SCIENCE / History, MEDICAL / Emergency Medicine, Trauma & shock, History of Science, Trauma and shock, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms