Right to Health
Medicine, Marginality, and Health Care Reform in Northeastern Brazil
«This excellent ethnography . . . will appeal to many audiences and lends itself well to undergraduate teaching. What is particularly attractive about the book is its deft handling of ethnographic evidence: it shows rather than tells. This approach is gratifying because it trusts the scholarly reader to draw suggestive connections to multiple bodies of contemporary theory rather than hammering together an ambitious theoretical armature with a few slender tacks of ethnographic detail. It is inviting to the student reader because it is a lively, funny, touching read – full of memorable, evocative description and incident – that students will readily be able to mine for social theoretical points. . . . Jerome’s analysis offers keen insight into the current political situation in Brazil.»
Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
"Weaving ethnography and historical material, this book shows how low-income Brazilians have actively demanded, pragmatically secured, and sometimes rejected rights to healthcare. This carefully researched and clearly written work illuminates the changing and complex relationship between health and citizenship in Latin America. Les mer
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"Weaving ethnography and historical material, this book shows how low-income Brazilians have actively demanded, pragmatically secured, and sometimes rejected rights to healthcare. This carefully researched and clearly written work illuminates the changing and complex relationship between health and citizenship in Latin America." -- Alexander Edmonds, Professor of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, and author of Pretty Modern: Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil "The citizenship project in Brazil since the constitution of 1988 has become a critical case study. Recently, along with Cuba, it has provided a model to other Latin American countries that have incorporated health as a fundamental right of citizens and implemented universal health systems. This book is a timely analysis of the Brazilian case, and, I think, the first from this point of view in anthropology." -- Kathleen Musante (DeWalt), Professor of Anthropology and Public Health and former Director, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh; author of Nutritional Strategies and Agricultural Change in a Mexican Community; coauthor of Participant Observation: A Guide for Fieldworkers; and
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Texas Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781477311318
- Utgivelsesår
- 2015
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«This excellent ethnography . . . will appeal to many audiences and lends itself well to undergraduate teaching. What is particularly attractive about the book is its deft handling of ethnographic evidence: it shows rather than tells. This approach is gratifying because it trusts the scholarly reader to draw suggestive connections to multiple bodies of contemporary theory rather than hammering together an ambitious theoretical armature with a few slender tacks of ethnographic detail. It is inviting to the student reader because it is a lively, funny, touching read – full of memorable, evocative description and incident – that students will readily be able to mine for social theoretical points. . . . Jerome’s analysis offers keen insight into the current political situation in Brazil.»
Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
«[A] compelling and timely ethnography…A Right to Health combines a detailed history of Brazilian health care with compelling illness narratives.»
Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
«[Jerome's] goal is to explore the relationship between a formal right to health care and the way in which people experience that right...Jerome shows that patronage and dependency have continued to dominate favela life, as reciprocity among family members, friends, and neighbors, and the presence of good or bad bosses dominate the life of its inhabitants...Excellent.»
Latin American Research Review