1st Edition
Thinking Through Resistance A study of public oppositions to contemporary global health practice
List of Contributors
1 Introduction: Thinking through resistance
Nicola Bulled and Matthew Puffer
2 Subaltern Resistance Narratives and the Culture-Centered Approach: Inverting Public Health Discourse
Mohan J. Dutta and Ambar Basu
3 "Protecting Life": The case of Texas legislation and Resistances to Gardasil, the HPV Vaccine
Samantha D. Gottlieb
4 Resistance or Parasitism?: Waste Scavengers and Dengue Mosquito Control in Nicaragua
Alex M. Nading
5 When New Science Meets Old Traditions: Engaging the Indigenous Sector to Improve Uptake of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention in High-Prevalence Countries
Nicola Bulled and Edward C. Green
6 Saying no to PrEP Research in Malawi: What Constitutes ‘Failure’ in Offshored HIV Prevention Research?
Kristin Peterson, Morenike Oluwatoyin Folayan, Edward Chigwedere, and Evaristo Nthete
7 Oral Health as a Citizen-Making Project: Immigrant Parents’ Contestations of Dental Public Health Campaigns
Sarah Horton and Judith Barker
8 Drug Patents and Shit Politics in South Africa: Refiguring the Politics of the ‘Scientific’ and the ‘Global’ in Global Health Interventions
Christopher J. Colvin and Steven Robins
Index
Biography
Nicola Bulled is a medical anthropologist at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA. Her research explores the relationships between society and biomedical technologies for improved global health delivery.
