Critical Medical Anthropology: Perspectives in and from Latin America

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Jennie Gamlin, Sahra Gibbon, Paola M. Sesia, Lina Berrio
UCL Press, Mar 12, 2020 - Social Science - 312 pages

Critical Medical Anthropology presents inspiring work from scholars doing and engaging with ethnographic research in or from Latin America, addressing themes that are central to contemporary Critical Medical Anthropology (CMA). This includes issues of inequality, embodiment of history, indigeneity, non-communicable diseases, gendered violence, migration, substance abuse, reproductive politics and judicialisation, as these relate to health. 

The collection of ethnographically informed research, including original theoretical contributions, reconsiders the broader relevance of CMA perspectives for addressing current global healthcare challenges from and of Latin America. It includes work spanning four countries in Latin America (Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala and Peru) as well as the trans-migratory contexts they connect and are defined by. By drawing on diverse social practices, it addresses challenges of central relevance to medical anthropology and global health, including reproduction and maternal health, sex work, rare and chronic diseases, the pharmaceutical industry and questions of agency, political economy, identity, ethnicity, and human rights.

 

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About the author (2020)

Jennie Gamlin is Senior Wellcome Trust Fellow at the UCL Institute for Global Health. She works on decolonising gender and global health and critical theories of violence in Latin America.

Sahra Gibbon is Associate Professor in Medical Anthropology at UCL Anthropology. She works on the social and cultural aspects of developments in genomics and public health in the UK, Cuba and Brazil.

Paola M. Sesia is Professor of Medical Anthropology at CIESAS, Mexico, and works on reproductive, maternal and indigenous health from a social justice and rights perspective.

Lina Berrio is Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology at CIESAS, Mexico. She works on reproductive and maternal health in indigenous and afrodescendant population.

Bibliographic information

TitleCritical Medical Anthropology: Perspectives in and from Latin America
Embodying inequalities : perspectives from medical anthropology
EditorsJennie Gamlin, Sahra Gibbon, Paola M. Sesia, Lina Berrio
PublisherUCL Press, 2020
ISBN1787355829, 9781787355828
Length312 pages
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Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Social Science / Anthropology / Physical
  
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