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One blue child [electronic resource] : asthma, responsibility, and the politics of global health / Susanna Trnka

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Trnka, Susanna
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Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2017]
Physical Description
xiv, 262 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Contents
Introduction : taking responsibility for asthma : new kinds of people, new kinds of health -- Democratizing knowledge : patients caught between compliance and self-management -- Domestic experiments : when parents become "half a doctor" -- Patient agency, personal responsibility and the upholding of medical expertise -- Knowledge, discipline, and domesticity : the work of raising healthy children -- Body, breath, and mind : subjugated knowledge and alternative therapeutics -- The best holiday ever : the pleasures and pains of spa cures and summer camps -- Redistributing responsibility among states, companies, and citizens : struggles in the steel heart of the republic -- Conclusion : problematizing asthma.
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9781503601130 (cloth : alk. paper)
1503601137 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781503602458 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1503602451 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-254) and index.
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