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Author:   Jennie Gamlin ,  Sahra Gibbon ,  Paola M. Sesia ,  Lina Berrío
Publisher:   UCL Press
Imprint:   UCL Press
Weight:   0.770kg
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9781787355842

ISBN 10:   1787355845
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   12 March 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Preface: Critical Medical Anthropology in Latin America: trends, contributions, possibilities Eduardo Menéndez Introduction Paola Sesia, Jennie Gamlin, Sahra Gibbon and Lina Berrio SECTION ONE: INTERCULTURAL HEALTH. CRITICAL APPROACHES AND CURRENT CHALLENGES 1.     Anthropological engagement and interdisciplinary research: the critical approach in indigenous health in BrazilEsther Jean Langdon and Eliana E. Diehl 2.     Critical anthropologies of maternal health. Theorizing from the field in Mexican indigenous communities  Jennie Gamlin and Lina Rosa Berrio 3.     Susto, the anthropology of fear, and critical medical anthropology in Mexico and Peru David Orr and Frida Jacobo Herrera 4.     Post-coital pharmaceuticals and abortion ambiguity: avoiding unwanted pregnancy using emergency contraception and misoprostol in Lima, Peru  Rebecca Irons SECTION TWO: 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 bbrder region Olga Lidia Olivas Hernández 6.     Border spaces: stigma and social vulnerability to HIV-AIDS of Central American male migrants, at the Mexico-Guatemala border Rubén Muñoz, Carmen Fernández Casanueva, Sonia Morales Miranda and Kimberly C. Brouwer7. The ethno-racial basis of chronic diseases. Re-thinking race and ethnicity from a critical epidemiological perspectiveMelania Calestani and Laura Montesi SECTION THREE: POLITICAL ECONOMY AND JUDICALISATION 8.     Consultation rooms annexed to pharmacies: Mexican private, low cost, health service system Rosa María Osorio Carranza9. Naming, framing and shaming through obstetric viloence. An initial approach to the judicialisation of maternal health rights violations in MexicoPaola Sesia 10. Judicialisation and the politics of rare disease in Brazil. Re-thinking activism and inequalities Waleska Aureliano and Sahra Gibbon Afterword: Critical Medical Anthropology in Latin America Claudia FonsecaIndex

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'A necessary contribution [and] an important reference in studies.' Campos 'A substantial, complex and multi-faceted volume.' Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research 'Successfully provides a roadmap to guide scholars beyond their language barriers and engage with literature outside of English. [Critical medical anthropology] makes important contributions to CMA and related fields. We look forward to the fruitful work and collaboration it inspires.' American Journal of Human Biology

'Critical Medical Anthropology: Perspectives in and from Latin America is more than simply a commendable effort toward correcting exclusionary practices of citation and giving Third World intellectual traditions their due place; it also invites us to rethink our theoretical and methodological canons going forward.' Medical Anthropology Quarterly 'A necessary contribution [and] an important reference in studies.' Campos 'A substantial, complex and multi-faceted volume.' Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research 'Successfully provides a roadmap to guide scholars beyond their language barriers and engage with literature outside of English. [Critical medical anthropology] makes important contributions to CMA and related fields. We look forward to the fruitful work and collaboration it inspires.' American Journal of Human Biology

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Jennie Gamlin is Senior Wellcome Trust Fellow at the UCL Institute for Global Health. She works on decolonising gender and global health and critical theories of violence in Latin America. Sahra Gibbon is Associate Professor in Medical Anthropology at UCL Anthropology. She works on the social and cultural aspects of developments in genomics and public health in the UK, Cuba and Brazil. Paola M. Sesia is Professor of Medical Anthropology at CIESAS, Mexico, and works on reproductive, maternal and indigenous health from a social justice and rights perspective. Lina Berrio is Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology at CIESAS, Mexico. She works on reproductive and maternal health in indigenous and afrodescendant population.

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