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Title Critical medical anthropology : perspectives in and from Latin America / edited by Jennie Gamlin, Sahra Gibbon, Paola M. Sesia and Lina Berrio.

Publication Info. London : UCL Press, 2020.

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 286 pages) : color illustrations, color map
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Embodying inequalities : perspectives from medical anthropology.
Embodying inequalities : perspectives from medical anthropology.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note Print version record.
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Preface: Critical medical anthropology in Latin America: Trends, contributions, possibilities -- Introduction -- Part 1: Intercultural health: Critical approaches and current challenges -- 1. Anthropological engagement and interdisciplinary research: The critical approach to Indigenous health in Brazil -- 2. Critical anthropologies of maternal health: Theorising from the field with Mexican Indigenous communities
3. Susto, the anthropology of fear and critical medical anthropology in Mexico and Peru -- 4. Post-coital pharmaceuticals and abortion ambiguity: Avoiding unwanted pregnancy using emergency contraception and misoprostol in Lima, Peru -- Part 2: Globalisation and contemporary challenges of border spaces and biologised difference -- 5. Migrant trajectories and health experiences: Processes of health/illness/care for drug use among migrants in the Mexico-United States border region
6. Border spaces: Stigma and social vulnerability to HIV/AIDS among Central American male migrants at the Mexico-Guatemala border -- 7. The ethno-racial basis of chronic diseases: Rethinking race and ethnicity from a critical epidemiological perspective -- Part 3: Political economy and judicialisation -- 8. Consultation rooms annexed to pharmacies: The Mexican private, low-cost healthcare system -- 9. Naming, framing and shaming through obstetric violence: A critical approach to the judicialisation of maternal health rights violations in Mexico
10. Judicialisation and the politics of rare disease in Brazil: Rethinking activism and inequalities -- Afterword -- Index
Summary Critical Medical Anthropology presents contemporary perspectives on Critical Medical Anthropology (CMA).
Subject Lateinamerika
Medical anthropology -- Latin America.
Medical care.
Medical anthropology.
Latin America.
Indigenous peoples.
Delivery of Health Care
Indigenous Peoples
Minority Health
Socioeconomic Factors
Anthropology, Medical
Latin America
Patient Care
Prestation de soins.
Anthropologie médicale.
Amérique latine.
Soins médicaux.
Autochtones.
indigenous people.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Medical care
Medical anthropology
Latin America
Anthropologie
Added Author Gamlin, Jennie, editor.
Gibbon, Sahra, editor.
Sesia, Paola M., editor.
Berrio, Lina, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Critical medical anthropology. London : UCL Press, 2020 1787355845 (OCoLC)1122748020
ISBN 9781787355828 (electronic bk.)
1787355829 (electronic bk.)
9781787355859 (epub)
1787355853
9781787355866 (mobi)
1787355861
1787355845
9781787355842
1787355837
9781787355835
Standard No. AU@ 000067504613
UKMGB 019749758
AU@ 000067511552
AU@ 000067277443
AU@ 000074149429

 
    
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