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Author Smith-Nonini, Sandra C

Title Healing the body politic : El Salvador's popular struggle for health rights--from civil war to neoliberal peace / Sandy Smith-Nonini
Published New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 306 pages) : illustrations, 1 map
Series Studies in medical anthropology
Studies in medical anthropology.
Contents Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Terror and Healing in El Salvador -- Introduction: Theorizing the Body and the State -- Part One: Exclusion and the Politics of Bare Life -- 1. Manufacturing Ill-being -- Repression's Repercussions -- Part Two: War Against Health -- 3. Insurgent Health -- 4. Low-Intensity Conflict and the War against Health -- 5. Pacification -- Part Three: Health against War -- 6. The Anatomy of "Popular Health" in the Repopulated Villages -- 7. The Elusive Goal of Community Participation -- Part Four: War by Other Means -- 8. Popular Health and the State -- 9. Disinvesting in Health -- 10. The White Marches -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary Healing the Body Politic examines the contested place of health and development in El Salvador over the last two decades. It recounts the dramatic story of radical health activism from its origins in liberation theology and guerrilla medicine during the third-world country's twelve-year civil war, through development of a remarkable "popular health system," administered by lay providers in a former war zone controlled by leftist rebels. The ethnography contributes to the integration of medical and political anthropology by bringing the semiotics of health and the body to bear
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-293) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Public health -- El Salvador
Medical policy -- El Salvador
Community health services -- El Salvador
Social conflict -- Health aspects -- El Salvador
Medical policy.
Health Policy
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Hispanic American Studies.
Community health services
Medical policy
Public health
SUBJECT El Salvador https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004544
Subject El Salvador
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009025348
ISBN 9780813549255
0813549256