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Author:   Emily E Vasquez ,  Amaya G. Perez-Brumer (Columbia University, USA) ,  Richard Parker (Columbia University, USA; Associação Brasileira Interdisciplinar de AIDS (ABIA), Brazil)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9780367901271

ISBN 10:   0367901277
Pages:   292
Publication Date:   04 May 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction: Social inequities and contemporary struggles for collective health in Latin America 1. Social Medicine and International Expert Networks in Latin America, 1930-1945 2. Social medicine, feminism and the politics of population: From transnational knowledge networks to national social movements in Brazil and Mexico 3. Latin American social medicine across borders: South–South cooperation and the making of health solidarity 4. Collective Health and Regional Integration in Latin America: An opportunity for building a new international health agenda 5. Revisiting the social determinants of health agenda from the global South 6. Theoretical underpinnings of state institutionalisation of inclusion and struggles in collective health in Latin America 7. History and challenges of Brazilian social movements for the achievement of the right to adequate food 8. La Revolución Ciudadana and social medicine: Undermining community in the state provision of health care in Ecuador 9. Social transformation, collective health and community-based arts: ‘Buen Vivir’ and Ecuador's social circus programme 10. ‘Live Beautiful, Live Well’ (‘Vivir Bonito, Vivir Bien’) in Nicaragua: Environmental health citizenship in a post neoliberal context 11. Rites of Resistance: Sex Workers’ Fight to Maintain Rights and Pleasure in the Centre of the Response to HIV in Brazil 12. Confluent paths: Research and community participation to protect the right to health among transgender women in Peru 13. Santo Domingo’s LGBT social movement: At the crossroads of HIV and LGBT activism 14. Social Class for Collective Health Research: A Conceptual and Empirical Challenge 15. Struggles for the right to health at work in Colombia: The case of associations of workers with work-related illnesses 16. The mental health users’ movement in Argentina from the perspective of Latin American Collective Health 17. Global frameworks, local strategies: Women's rights, health, and the tobacco control movement in Argentina 18. The decriminalisation of abortion in Colombia as cautionary tale. Social movements, numbers and socio-technical struggles in the promotion of health as a right 19. Struggles for maintenance: Patient activism and dialysis dilemmas amidst a global diabetes epidemic

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Emily E. Vasquez is in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. Amaya Perez-Brumer is at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, Canada. Richard G. Parker holds appointments at Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association.

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