One Blue Child: Asthma, Responsibility, and The Politics of Global Health

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By Susanna Trnka *02

Published May 31, 2017

One Blue Child (Stanford University Press) is an ethnographic examination of dealing with asthma in the age of increased self-management of health care. Trnka, an associate professor of social anthropology at the University of Auckland, looks at how the condition is dealt with by physicians, patients, families, and policy arriving at sometimes surprising results.

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