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Healing the Body Politic: El Salvador's Popular Struggle for Health Rights- From Civil War to Neoliberal Peace - Couverture souple

Smith-Nonini, Sandy

 
9780813547367: Healing the Body Politic: El Salvador's Popular Struggle for Health Rights- From Civil War to Neoliberal Peace
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0813547369 ISBN 13 : 9780813547367
Editeur : Rutgers University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Incorporating investigative journalism and drawing on interviews with participants and leaders, Sandy Smith-Nonini examines the contested place of health and development in El Salvador over the last two decades. Healing the Body Politic recounts the dramatic story of radical health activism from its origins in liberation theology and guerrilla medicine during the third-world country's twelve-year civil war, through development of a remarkable "popular health system," administered by lay providers in a former war zone controlled by leftist rebels. This ethnography casts light on the conflicts between the conservative Ministry of Health and primary health advocates during the 1990s peace process--a time when the government sought to dismantle the effective peasant-run rural system. It offers a rare analysis of the White Marches of 2002û2003, when radicalized physicians rose to national leadership in a successful campaign against privatization of the social security health system. Healing the Body Politic contributes to the productive integration of medical and political anthropology by bringing the semiotics of health and the body to bear on cultural understandings of warfare, the state, and globalization.

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À propos de l'auteur

Sandy Smith-Nonini is a research assistant professor of anthropology at the University of North CarolinaûChapel Hill. She is the recipient of the Peter K. New Prize from the Society for Applied Anthropology and the Richard Carley Hunt Award from the Wenner Gren Foundation.

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Éditeur
Rutgers University Press
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0813547369
ISBN 13 
9780813547367
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
330
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