Gabriela Elisa Morales

Decolonizing Medicine

Indigenous Politics and the Practice of Care in Bolivia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Decolonizing Medicine examines Bolivian state-led efforts to decolonize health services during the administration of Evo Morales, Bolivia's first Indigenous president. Governing from 2006 to 2019, the Morales administration undertook sweeping reforms, vowing to reverse intertwined colonial and capitalist systems of oppression and restore Indigenous good living.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• New ed
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9781503642720
• ISBN-10: 1503642720
• Artikelnr.: 71927490

Autorenporträt

Gabriela Elisa Morales is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Scripps College.

Inhaltsangabe

Figures
Preface: Positioning Critique
INTRODUCTION: Waiting for Reform
1. The Bureaucratic Politics of Good Living: Health Policy in the Morales
Era
2. Reorienting Care: Benevolence, Violence, and Medical Training
3. Warm and Cold: Cultural Adaptation and the Circulation of Temperature
4. Embodied Redistribution: Extraction and the Labor of Healing
5. Doctor, Patient, Kin: Remaking Hospital Relations
6. Accountable Care: Participatory Planning and the Practice of Complaint
CONCLUSION: Political Aftermaths
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index