Healing the body politic : El Salvador's popular struggle for health rights--from civil war to neoliberal peace /
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 w...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©2010.
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| Series: | Studies in medical anthropology.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| 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 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 306 pages) : illustrations, 1 map |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-293) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813549255 0813549256 |