{"product_id":"health-in-ruins-the-capitalist-destruction-of-medical-care-at-a-colombian-maternity-hospital-paperback","title":"Health in Ruins: The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCésar Ernesto Abadía-Barrero\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHealth in Ruins\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCésar Ernesto Abadía-Barrero is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut, author of \u003ci\u003e\"I Have AIDS but I Am Happy\" Children's Subjectivities, AIDS, and Social Responses in Brazil\u003c\/i\u003e, and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Medical Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 18, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48052923695363,"sku":"9781478018933","price":57.94,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/9310\/7359\/files\/VFVZY052UDBUWDFWc3hSS1JCQkhCQT09.webp?v=1777744413","url":"https:\/\/annizon.com\/en-fi\/products\/health-in-ruins-the-capitalist-destruction-of-medical-care-at-a-colombian-maternity-hospital-paperback","provider":"annizon.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}