Privatization and the New Medical Pluralism (eBook, ePUB)

Shifting Healthcare Landscapes in Maya Guatemala
Redaktion: Chary, Anita; Rohloff, Peter

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Privatization and the New Medical Pluralism is the first collection of its kind to explore the contemporary terrain of healthcare in Guatemala through reflective ethnography. This volume offers a nuanced portrait of the effects of healthcare privatization for indigenous Maya people, who have historically endured numerous disparities in health and healthcare access. The collection provides an updated understanding of medical pluralism, which concerns not only the tensions and exchanges between ethnomedicine and biomedicine that have historically shaped Maya people's experiences of health, but also the multiple competing biomedical institutions that have emerged in a highly privatized, market-driven environment of care. The contributors examine the macro-structural and micro-level implications of the proliferation of non-governmental organizations, private fee-for-service clinics, and new pharmaceuticals against the backdrop of a deteriorating public health system. In this environment, health seekers encounter new challenges and opportunities, relationships between the public, private, and civil sectors transform, and new forms of inequality in access to healthcare abound. This volume connects these themes to critical studies of global and public health, exposing the strictures and apertures of healthcare privatization for marginalized populations in Guatemala.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498505383
• Artikelnr.: 43978499

Autorenporträt

Anita Chary is an MD/PhD candidate in anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. Peter Rohloff is an instructor in medicine at Harvard University, an internist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and a pediatrician at Children's Hospital Boston.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
IntroductionPeter Rohloff & Anita Chary
Part One: The Public-Private Interface
Chapter 1Strategic Alliances: The Shifting Motivations for NGO
Collaboration with Government Programs
Jonathan Maupin
Chapter 2"Mi Familia Pobreza": Conditional Cash Transfers and
Maternal-Child Health in Rural Guatemala
Shom Dasgupta-Tsinikas and Paul Wise
Chapter 3Forced Motherhood in Guatemala: An Analysis of the Thousand Days
Initiative
Alejandra Colom
Part Two: Commoditizing Care
Chapter 4"This Disease Is for Those Who Can Afford It": Diabetes in
Indigenous Maya Communities
David Flood and Peter Rohloff
Chapter 5Capitalizing on Care: Marketplace Quasi-pharmaceuticals in the
Guatemalan Health-seeking Landscape
Rachel Hall-Clifford
Part Three: Navigating Novel Resources
Chapter 6Engaging Mental Healthcare in a Disengaged System
Carla Pezzia
Chapter 7Hysterectomies and Healer Shopping: Cervical Cancer and
Therapeutic Anarchy in Guatemala
Anita Chary
Chapter 8Leveraging Resources in Contemporary Maya Midwifery
Nora King, Anita Chary, and Peter Rohloff
Chapter 9Conclusion: A Bad Conscience of Justice!
Peter Benson
References
Contributors
Index