Critical medical anthropology : perspectives in and from Latin America - Gamlin, Jennie; Gibbon, Sahra; Sesia-Lewis, Paola; Berrio, Lina (UCL Press, 2020)
Part 1, Intercultural health: Critical approaches and current challenges. Anthropological engagement and interdisciplinary research: The critical approach in indigenous health in Brazil ; Critical anthropologies of maternal health: Theorising from the field in Mexican indigenous communities ; Susto, the anthropology of fear, and critical medical anthropology in Mexico and Peru ; 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. Migrant trajectories and health experiences: Processes of health/illness/care for drug use among migrants in the Mexico-United States border region ; Border Spaces: Stigma and social vulnerability to HIV-AIDS among Central American male migrants at the Mexico-Guatemala border ; The ethno-racial basis of chronic diseases: Re-thinking race and ethnicity from a critical epidemiological perspective -- Part 3, Political economy and judicialisation. Consultation rooms annexed to pharmacies: The Mexican private, low cost, health service system ; Naming, framing and shaming through obstetric viloence: A critical approach to the judicialisation of maternal health rights violations in Mexico ; Judicialisation and the politics of rare disease in Brazil: Re-thinking activism and inequalities
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Medical anthropology -- Latin America