Overview
- Focuses on issues of legitimacy in healthcare and public health settings drawing on ethnographic research
- Brings comparatively together anthropological studies on healthcare and public health rigorously
- Takes into account the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the health system
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology (PSUA)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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 public’s trust.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Legitimacy of Healthcare and Public Health
Book Subtitle: Anthropological Perspectives
Editors: Italo Pardo, Giuliana B. Prato
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25592-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-25591-5Published: 04 May 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-25594-6Due: 18 May 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-25592-2Published: 03 May 2023
Series ISSN: 2946-2436
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2444
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 315
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Medical Anthropology, Anthropology, Ethnography, Health Care Management, Governance and Government