The Legitimacy of Healthcare and Public Health

Chapter 1. Introduction-On Legitimacy. Healthcare and Public Safety.- Chapter 2. Health Inequalities and Ethics of Responsibility: A Comparative Ethnography.- Chapter 3. Misgovernance Kills: Italian Evidence.- Chapter 4. The Fragility of Legitimacy: Access to Health Care in Manantali, Mali. Chapter 5. "I Chose this 'Other Way'": An Ethnographic Approach to Medical Pluralism Within the Context of Greek Cancer Care.- Chapter 6. Covid-19 Pandemic, Hydroxychloroquine and Healthcare System in Turkey.- Chapter 7. Negotiating Power over Human Bodies: Populism, People and the Politics of Health in Delhi.- Chapter 8. The Poverty of Opportunity: Where Are We Going; Where Have We Been.- Chapter 9. The Views of Selected Tennesseans on Universal Health Care as a Right.- Chapter 10. The Biopolitics of Complementary Spiritual Healing in South Korea and Israel.- Chapter 11. Health Sovereignty in West-Central Mexico: Legitimacy from the Grassroots.- Chapter 12. Disabled People and Access to the Labour Market: The Case of Greece.- Chapter 13. Managing Public Health in a Fragile Consociation: Lebanon between Wars, Explosions and the Covid-19 Pandemic.- Chapter 14. Interrogating the Public Health Approach: Lessons from the Field of Urban Violence.- Chapter 15. Maintaining the Health of the Public: Containing the Threat of Terrorist Resurgence in Contemporary Peru.

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.