Health in Ruins : The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital /

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"In Health in Ruins Cesar E. Abadía-Barrero chronicles the story of El Materno-Colombia's oldest maternity and neonatal health center and teaching hospital-over several decades as it faced constant threats of government shutdown. Using team-based and collaborative ethnography to analyze t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Abadía-Barrero, Cesar (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Hospital San Juan de Dios (Bogotá, Colombia)
Public health.
Privatization.
Medical care.
Maternal health services.
Hospitals > Maternity services.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
HISTORY / Latin America / South America.
Maternal health services > Colombia > Bogotá.
Hospitals > Maternity services > Colombia > Bogotá.
Privatization > Colombia.
Public health > Colombia.
Medical care > Colombia.
Colombia > Bogotá
Colombia.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Timeline: People, infrastructures, and events
  • The National University Escuela
  • Clinical social medicine
  • Religion and caring in a medical setting
  • Hospital budgets before and after neoliberalism
  • Violence and resistance
  • Remaining amidst destruction
  • Learning and practicing medicine in a for-profit system
  • Medicine as political imagination.

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