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Author Cooper, Amy, 1976- author.

Title State of health : pleasure and politics in Venezuelan health care under Chávez / Amy Cooper
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 200 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction -- Moving medicine inside the Barrio -- Clinical intimacies as macropolitics -- Beyond biomedicine -- Pleasures of participation -- The limits of citizenship
Summary "State of Health: Pleasure and Politics in Venezuelan Health Care under Chávez takes readers inside one of the most controversial regimes of the 21st century for an in-depth account of how poor people's lives changed when the state reorganized its health system. This lively and accessible ethnography looks at the pleasure people took in new features of government health care such as personalized doctors' visits, health activism, and therapeutic dancing. Based on extensive participant observation and interviews, this book shows that government health care in revolutionary Venezuela excited people because it provided more than medicine. Health programs empowered and affirmed poor people as valued members of society, making it clear that their lives mattered. This book explains the meanings of socialized medicine from the vantage point of historically marginalized Venezuelans, who made up the majority of the country's population. It offers a singularly unique account of daily life in Chávez's Venezuela. Although people's lives have changed dramatically since the Chávez era, this book provides lasting insights into how ordinary people experience radical moments of social and political change. State of Health signals a paradigm shift in the field of medical anthropology by establishing the value of studying pleasure with the same seriousness of purpose with which ethnographers study suffering. This book shows how paying more attention to the positive aspects of medicine could revolutionize our understanding of how health care gives meaning to people's lives"--Provided by publisher
Analysis chronicling pleasure
controversial regime
government health care
historically marginalized venezuelans
hugo chavez
improving quality of life
medical services
new health care programs
ordinary people
personalized doctors visits
reorganizing society
significance of the bolivarian revolution
therapeutic dance classes
transformed health system
unique perspective
venezuela
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 25, 2019)
Subject Misión Barrio Adentro (Venezuela)
SUBJECT Misión Barrio Adentro (Venezuela) fast
Subject Medical policy -- Venezuela -- 21st century
Health care reform -- Venezuela -- 21st century
Medical policy.
Health care reform.
Health Policy
Health Care Reform
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Health care reform
Medical policy
Politics and government
SUBJECT Venezuela -- Politics and government -- 1999- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001005282
Venezuela
Subject Venezuela
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018040640
ISBN 9780520971080
0520971086