The Impact of Development and Modern Technologies in Third World Health. Studies in Third World Societies, Publication Number Thirty-Four [microform] / Barbara E. Jackson, Ed. and Antonio Ugalde, Ed
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- College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA. Dept. of Anthropology
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1985
- 363 p.
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This collection of papers is devoted to a study of the impact of developing nations' technological and economic development within the context of health related factors, including pharmaceuticals and food and nutrition. Titles and authors are as follows: (1) "Health, Development and Technologies: An Appraisal" (B. Jackson and A. Ugalde); (2) "Health and Development: A Marriage of Heaven and Hell?" (G. Borrini); (3) "Health Implications of Urbanization" (R. Halberstein); (4) "Drugging the People: Pills, Profits, and Underdevelopment in Nigeria" (S. Alubo); (5) "Drugs and Underdevelopment: A Case Study of Kano State, Nigeria" (R. Stock); (6) "Unequal Access to Pharmaceuticals in Southern Cameroon: The Context of a Problem" (S. van der Geest); (7) "Infant Feeding Practices in Mexico" (M. Cerqueira et al.); (8) "Modernization, Agricultural Exports, Food Availability and Nutrition in Central America: 1960-1980" (A. Ugalde); (9) "A Research Note: The Roles of Community Health Aids and Economic Development in the Nutritional Status of Children in Western Jamaica, 1973-1984" (B. Melville); (10) "Environmental Sanitation and Infant Mortality: A Study of Relationships in Ile-Ife, Nigeria" (B. Feyisetan); (11) "The Implications of Culture Contact for the Delivery of Health Services among Ngawbere" (Panama) (K Bletzer); (12) "The Introduction of High-Technology Industry in Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico: Health Care Implications for the Semi-Urban Peasant Class" (B. Jackson and T. Stocker); and (13) "Information Technology: The Case of the Microcomputer in the Third World. Colonial Plot or Appropriate Technology?" (W. Bertrand). Tables, references, and information about contributors are included. (JHP)
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