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Privatization and the New Medical Pluralism

Shifting Healthcare Landscapes in Maya Guatemala

von: Anita Chary, Peter Rohloff, Peter Benson, Alejandra Colom, Shom N. Dasgupta-Tsikinas, David Flood, Rachel Hall-Clifford, Nora King, Jonathan Maupin, Carla Pezzia, Paul Wise
104,99 €
Verlag:	Lexington Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	17.09.2015
ISBN/EAN:	9781498505383
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	228

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Titelbeschreibung

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.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

Privatization and the New Medical Pluralism provides ethnographic accounts of the effects of healthcare privatization for indigenous Maya people in Guatemala. This volume will greatly interest scholars in anthropology, global health, and public policy by offering insight into the challenges, opportunities, and inequalities the Maya people face.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Autorenportrait

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.