Social Inequities and Contemporary Struggles for Collective Health in Latin America (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Vasquez, Emily E; Parker, Richard; Perez-Brumer, Amaya G.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the legacy of the Latin American Social Medicine and Collective Health (LASM-CH) movements. Working at the nexus of activism, policy, and health equity, this multidisciplinary collection, thus, offers new perspective on struggles for justice in 21st century Latin America.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000071597
• Artikelnr.: 60092241

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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