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OverviewIn Health in Ruins Cesar Ernesto Abadia-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 the social life of neoliberal health policy, Abadia-Barrero details the everyday dynamics around teaching, learning, and working in health care before, during, and after privatization. He argues that health care privatization is not only about defunding public hospitals; it also ruins rich traditions of medical care by denying or destroying ways of practicing medicine that challenge Western medicine. Despite radical cuts in funding and a corrupt and malfunctioning privatized system, El Materno's professors, staff, and students continued to find ways to provide innovative, high-quality, and noncommodified health care. By tracking the violences, conflicts, hopes, and uncertainties that characterized the struggles to keep El Materno open, Abadia-Barrero demonstrates that any study of medical care needs to be embedded in larger political histories. Full Product DetailsAuthor: César Ernesto Abadía-BarreroPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781478018933ISBN 10: 1478018933 Pages: 312 Publication Date: 14 October 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Prologue xv Timeline: People, Infrastructures, and Events xix Introduction 1 1. The National University Escuela 21 2. Clinical Social Medicine 45 3. Religion and Caring in a Medical Setting 79 4. Hospital Budgets before and after Neoliberalism 103 5. Violence and Resistance 137 6. Remaining amid Destruction 179 7. Learning and Practicing Medicine in a For-Profit System 199 Final Remarks. Medicine as Political Imagination 221 Notes 229 References 261 Index 283Reviews“This superb, timely monograph . . . is both collaborative and activist. . . . Abadía-Barrero’s decade of intense fieldwork along with his local knowledge has enabled him to produce a vivid, astutely rendered ethnography.” -- Carole Browner * H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews * This superb, timely monograph . . . is both collaborative and activist. . . . Abadia-Barrero's decade of intense fieldwork along with his local knowledge has enabled him to produce a vivid, astutely rendered ethnography. -- Carole Browner * H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews * Author InformationCésar Ernesto Abadía-Barrero is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut, author of “I Have AIDS but I Am Happy”: Children’s Subjectivities, AIDS, and Social Responses in Brazil, and coeditor of A Companion to Medical Anthropology. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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