Critical medical anthropology : perspectives in and from Latin America / edited by Jennie Gamlin, Sahra Gibbon, Paola M. Sesia and Lina Berrio.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Preface: Critical medical anthropology in Latin America: Trends, contributions, possibilities -- Introduction -- Part 1: Intercultural health: Critical approaches and current challenges -- 1. Anthropological engagement and interdisciplinary research: The critical approach to indigenous health in Brazil -- 2. Critical anthropologies of maternal health: Theorising from the field with Mexican indigenous communities

3. Susto, the anthropology of fear and critical medical anthropology in Mexico and Peru -- 4. Post-coital pharmaceuticals and abortion ambiguity: Avoiding unwanted pregnancy using emergency contraception and misoprostol in Lima, Peru -- Part 2: Globalisation and contemporary challenges of border spaces and biologised difference -- 5. Migrant trajectories and health experiences: Processes of health/illness/care for drug use among migrants in the Mexico-United States border region

6. Border spaces: Stigma and social vulnerability to HIV/AIDS among Central American male migrants at the Mexico-Guatemala border -- 7. The ethno-racial basis of chronic diseases: Rethinking race and ethnicity from a critical epidemiological perspective -- Part 3: Political economy and judicialisation -- 8. Consultation rooms annexed to pharmacies: The Mexican private, low-cost healthcare system -- 9. Naming, framing and shaming through obstetric violence: A critical approach to the judicialisation of maternal health rights violations in Mexico

10. Judicialisation and the politics of rare disease in Brazil: Rethinking activism and inequalities -- Afterword -- Index

Critical Medical Anthropology presents contemporary perspectives on Critical Medical Anthropology (CMA).

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