{"product_id":"health-in-ruins-9781478018933","title":"Health in Ruins","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHealth in Ruins\u003c\/i\u003e 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, conf\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This superb, timely monograph . . . is both collaborative and activist. . . . Abadía-Barrero’s decade of intense fieldwork along with his local knowledge has enabled him to produce a vivid, astutely rendered ethnography.” -- Carole Browner * H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book calls on us to fight for health care that no longer leaves so many people in the public hospital waiting area, condemned to a precarious survival, while offering treatment in private hospitals to those who can pay. ... \u003ci\u003eHealth in Ruins \u003c\/i\u003emakes a fundamental contribution to current scholarly debates on the embodiment of social inequalities brought about by capitalist ideology.\" \u003c\/p\u003e -- Ivana Teixeira * American Ethnologist *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Prologue  xv\u003cbr\u003e Timeline: People, Infrastructures, and Events  xix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. The National University Escuela  21\u003cbr\u003e 2. Clinical Social Medicine  45\u003cbr\u003e 3. Religion and Caring in a Medical Setting  79\u003cbr\u003e 4. Hospital Budgets before and after Neoliberalism  103\u003cbr\u003e 5. Violence and Resistance  137\u003cbr\u003e 6. Remaining amid Destruction  179\u003cbr\u003e 7. Learning and Practicing Medicine in a For-Profit System  199\u003cbr\u003e Final Remarks. Medicine as Political Imagination  221\u003cbr\u003e Notes  229\u003cbr\u003e References  261\u003cbr\u003e Index  283","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409009713495,"sku":"9781478018933","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478018933.jpg?v=1730505075","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/health-in-ruins-9781478018933","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}