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Title Critical medical anthropology : perspectives in and from Latin America / edited by Jennie Gamlin, Sahra Gibbon, Paola M. Sesia and Lina Berrio
Published London : UCL Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 286 pages) : color illustrations, color map
Series Embodying inequalities : perspectives from medical anthropology
Embodying inequalities : perspectives from medical anthropology
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
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
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
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
Subject Medical anthropology -- Latin America
Medical care.
Medical anthropology.
Indigenous peoples.
Delivery of Health Care
Indigenous Peoples
Minority Health
Socioeconomic Factors
Anthropology, Medical
Patient Care
indigenous people.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Medical care
Medical anthropology
Anthropologie
SUBJECT Latin America. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074879
Latin America https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007843
Subject Latin America
Form Electronic book
Author Gamlin, Jennie, editor
Gibbon, Sahra, editor
Sesia, Paola M., editor
Berrio, Lina, editor
ISBN 9781787355828
1787355829
9781787355859
1787355853
9781787355866
1787355861