State of Health - Pleasure and Politics in Venezuelan Health Care under Chávez

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-520-29928-3
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 2000 g

State of Health takes readers inside one of the most controversial regimes of the twenty-first century—Venezuela under Hugo Chávez—for a revealing description of how people’s lives changed for the better as the state began reorganizing society. With lively and accessible storytelling, Amy Cooper chronicles the pleasure people experienced accessing government health care and improving their quality of life. From personalized doctor’s visits to therapeutic dance classes, new health care programs provided more than medical services. State of Health offers a unique perspective on the significance of the Bolivarian Revolution for ordinary people, demonstrating how the transformed health system succeeded in exciting people and recognizing historically marginalized Venezuelans as bodies who mattered.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cooper, Amy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

1 • Introduction
2 • Moving Medicine Inside the Barrio
3 • Clinical Intimacies as Macropolitics
4 • Beyond Biomedicine
5 • Pleasures of Participation
6 • The Limits of Citizenship
Conclusion

Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Amy Cooper is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Saint Louis University.