Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 286 pages) : color illustrations, color map |
Series |
Embodying inequalities : perspectives from medical anthropology |
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Embodying inequalities : perspectives from medical anthropology
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Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Preface: Critical medical anthropology in Latin America: Trends, contributions, possibilities -- Introduction -- Part 1: Intercultural health: Critical approaches and current challenges -- 1. Anthropological engagement and interdisciplinary research: The critical approach to Indigenous health in Brazil -- 2. Critical anthropologies of maternal health: Theorising from the field with Mexican Indigenous communities |
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3. Susto, the anthropology of fear and critical medical anthropology in Mexico and Peru -- 4. Post-coital pharmaceuticals and abortion ambiguity: Avoiding unwanted pregnancy using emergency contraception and misoprostol in Lima, Peru -- Part 2: Globalisation and contemporary challenges of border spaces and biologised difference -- 5. Migrant trajectories and health experiences: Processes of health/illness/care for drug use among migrants in the Mexico-United States border region |
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6. Border spaces: Stigma and social vulnerability to HIV/AIDS among Central American male migrants at the Mexico-Guatemala border -- 7. The ethno-racial basis of chronic diseases: Rethinking race and ethnicity from a critical epidemiological perspective -- Part 3: Political economy and judicialisation -- 8. Consultation rooms annexed to pharmacies: The Mexican private, low-cost healthcare system -- 9. Naming, framing and shaming through obstetric violence: A critical approach to the judicialisation of maternal health rights violations in Mexico |
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10. Judicialisation and the politics of rare disease in Brazil: Rethinking activism and inequalities -- Afterword -- Index |
Summary |
Critical Medical Anthropology presents contemporary perspectives on Critical Medical Anthropology (CMA) |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
SUBJECT |
Lateinamerika gnd |
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Medical anthropology -- Latin America
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Medical care.
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Medical anthropology.
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Indigenous peoples.
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Delivery of Health Care
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Indigenous Peoples
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Minority Health
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Socioeconomic Factors
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Anthropology, Medical
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Patient Care
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indigenous people.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Medical care
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Medical anthropology
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Anthropologie
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Latin America. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074879
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Latin America https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007843 |
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Latin America
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Gamlin, Jennie, editor
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Gibbon, Sahra, editor
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Sesia, Paola M., editor
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Berrio, Lina, editor
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ISBN |
9781787355828 |
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1787355829 |
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9781787355859 |
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1787355853 |
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9781787355866 |
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1787355861 |
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