Health in Ruins

The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital

César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

2022
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-1629-8 (ISBN)

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In Health in Ruins CÉsar Ernesto AbadÍa-Barrero chronicles the story of El Materno-Colombia’s oldest maternity and neonatal health center and teaching hospital-over several decades as it faced constant threats of government shutdown. Using team-based and collaborative ethnography to analyze the social life of neoliberal health policy, AbadÍa-Barrero details the everyday dynamics around teaching, learning, and working in health care before, during, and after privatization. He argues that health care privatization is not only about defunding public hospitals; it also ruins rich traditions of medical care by denying or destroying ways of practicing medicine that challenge Western medicine. Despite radical cuts in funding and a corrupt and malfunctioning privatized system, El Materno’s professors, staff, and students continued to find ways to provide innovative, high-quality, and noncommodified health care. By tracking the violences, conflicts, hopes, and uncertainties that characterized the struggles to keep El Materno open, AbadÍa-Barrero demonstrates that any study of medical care needs to be embedded in larger political histories.

CÉsar Ernesto AbadÍa-Barrero is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut, author of “I Have AIDS but I Am Happy”: Children’s Subjectivities, AIDS, and Social Responses in Brazil, and coeditor of A Companion to Medical Anthropology.

Acknowledgments ix
Prologue xv
Timeline: People, Infrastructures, and Events xix
Introduction 1
1. The National University Escuela 21
2. Clinical Social Medicine 45
3. Religion and Caring in a Medical Setting 79
4. Hospital Budgets before and after Neoliberalism 103
5. Violence and Resistance 137
6. Remaining amid Destruction 179
7. Learning and Practicing Medicine in a For-Profit System 199
Final Remarks. Medicine as Political Imagination 221
Notes 229
References 261
Index 283

Erscheinungsdatum	23.09.2022
Reihe/Serie	Experimental Futures
Zusatzinfo	10 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	567 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4780-1629-9 / 1478016299
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-1629-8 / 9781478016298
Zustand	Neuware