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- Healing the Body Politic: El Salvador's Popular Struggle for Health Rights from Civil war to Neoliberal Peace
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Rutgers University Press
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 on cultural understandings of warfare, the state, and globalization.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Part One: Exclusion and the Politics of Bare Life
- 1. Manufacturing Ill-being
- pp. 25-47
- 2. Repression's Repercussions
- pp. 48-71
- Part Two: War Against Health
- 3. Insurgent Health
- pp. 75-97
- 5. Pacification
- pp. 122-145
- Part Three: Health against War
- Part Four: War by Other Means
- 8. Popular Health and the State
- pp. 195-219
- 9. Disinvesting in Health
- pp. 220-236
- 10. The White Marches
- pp. 237-256
- References
- pp. 275-293
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813549255
Related ISBN(s)
9780813547350
MARC Record
OCLC
642200650
Pages
330
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No