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Critical medical anthropology : perspectives in and from Latin America /

Critical Medical Anthropology presents contemporary perspectives on Critical Medical Anthropology (CMA).

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gamlin, Jennie (Editor ), Gibbon, Sahra (Editor ), Sesia, Paola M. (Editor ), Berrio, Lina (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : UCL Press, 2020.
Colección:Embodying inequalities : perspectives from medical anthropology.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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