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The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital
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In 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.

Author Biography:

César 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.
Release date NZ
October 14th, 2022
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Illustrations
10 illustrations
Pages
312
ISBN-13
9781478018933
Product ID
35717160

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