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    • Author/Creator:Kamat, Vinay R.
    • Title:Silent violence [electronic resource] : global health, malaria, and child survival in Tanzania / Vinay R. Kamat.
    • ISBN:9780816599202
      0816599203
      9780816529520 (pbk. : alk. paper)
      0816529523
    • Published/Created:Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2013. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013)
    • Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
    • Links:Online book
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    • Summary:"Seeking to link social, economic, and political forces to local experiences of sickness and suffering, Silent Violence analyzes the experiences and practices of people most deeply affected by malaria. Vinay Kamat explores the experience of individuals and households confronted by malaria against the backdrop of social and health issues"--Provided by publisher.
    • Variant and related titles:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
    • Format:Book
    • BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
    • Contents:Part I, Global discourses -- The violence of a global killer -- Locating the field -- Commanding heights and failed promises -- Part II, Local practices -- Micropolitics of childhood malaria -- Malaria deaths and meaning making -- Malaria, single mothers and social suffering -- Part III, Philanthrocapitalism -- Old ideas and new promises -- Globalizing antimalarials -- Part IV, The way forward -- From malaria control to malaria elimination -- Epilogue: the end of malaria?
    • Subjects:Children--Diseases--Tanzania.
      Malaria--Treatment--Tanzania.
      Malaria--Social aspects--Tanzania.
      Tanzania--Economic conditions.
      Tanzania--Social conditions.
    • Also listed under:Project Muse.