Book ID: CBB446594553

Health in Ruins: The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital (2022)

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Abadía-Barrero, César Ernesto (Author)


Duke University Press


Publication Date: 2022
Physical Details: 312
Language: English

In Health in Ruins 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.

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Authors & Contributors
Schlumbohm, Jürgen
Alzate Echeveri, A. M.
Gutschow, Kim
Keirns, Carla Christine
Olszynko-Gryn, Jesse
Richardson, Sarah S.
Journals
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Asclepio: Archivo Iberoamericano de Historia de la Medicina
British Journal for the History of Science
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
Publishers
University of Chicago
Boydell & Brewer
McGill-Queen's University Press
MIT Press
Publications de l'Université de Provence
University of California Press
Concepts
Obstetrics and pregnancy
Maternal health services
Hospitals and clinics
Health policy
Health care
Medicine and government
People
Clinton, Bill
Osiander, Friedrich Benjamin
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
18th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Places
Great Britain
United States
England
Brazil
Tibet
New York (U.S.)
Institutions
Universität Göttingen
National Health Service (Great Britain)
University of Toronto
Göttingen. Universität
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