| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 286 pages) : color illustrations, color map. |
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| Series |
Embodying inequalties : perspectives from medical anthropology
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| 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). |
| Subject |
Medical anthropology -- Latin America.
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Medical anthropology. (OCoLC)fst01013693
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Latin America. (OCoLC)fst01245945
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.
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| Added 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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| Other Form: |
Print version: Critical medical anthropology. London : UCL Press, 2020 1787355845 (OCoLC)1122748020 |
| ISBN |
9781787355828 (electronic book) |
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1787355829 (electronic book) |
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