Introduction: a world transformed -- Health in the time of the U.S.S.R. : a window into the communist moral world -- Seeking help at the end of empire : a transnational lifeline for Badakhshan -- The health crisis in Badakhshan : sickness and misery at the end of empire -- Minding the gap? the revolving drug fund -- Bretton Woods to Bamako : how free-market orthodoxy infiltrated the international aid movement -- From Bamako to Badakhshan : neoliberalism's "transplanting mechanism" -- Privatizing health services : "reforming" the old world -- The aftermath: ideological success/program failure -- Reflections on global health : reframing the moral dimensions of engagement
Summary
Neoliberalism has been the defining paradigm in global health since the latter part of the twentieth century. What started as an untested and unproven theory that the creation of unfettered markets would give rise to political democracy led to policies that promoted the belief that private markets were the optimal agents for the distribution of social goods, including health care. A vivid illustration of the infiltration of neoliberal ideology into the design and implementation of development programs, this case study, set in post-Soviet Tajikistan's remote eastern province of Badak
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-230) and index
