Cesar Ernesto Abadia-Barrero

Health in Ruins

The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital

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Produktbeschreibung

Cà sar Ernesto Abadà a-Barrero assesses neoliberalismâ s devastating effects on a public hospital in Colombia and how health care workers resisted defunding.

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Produktdetails

• Experimental Futures
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9781478018933
• ISBN-10: 1478018933
• Artikelnr.: 63660194

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  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  283