Healthcare in Latin America

Illustrating

the diversity of disciplines that intersect within global health studies, Healthcare in Latin America is the first

volume to gather research by many of the foremost scholars working on the topic

and region in fields such as history, sociology, women's studies, political

science, and cultural studies.



Through

this unique eclectic approach, contributors explore the development and

representation of public health in countries including Argentina, Bolivia,

Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico,

Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, and the United States. They examine how national

governments, whether reactionary or revolutionary, have approached healthcare

as a means to political legitimacy and popular support. Several essays contrast

modern biomedicine-based treatment with Indigenous healing practices. Other

topics include universal health coverage, childbirth, maternal care, forced

sterilization, trans and disabled individuals' access to care, intersexuality,

and healthcare disparities, many of which are discussed through depictions in

films and literature.



As economic and political conditions have

shifted amid modernization efforts, independence movements, migrations, and

continued inequities, so have the policies and practices of healthcare also

developed and changed. This book offers a rich overview of how the stories of

healthcare in Latin America are intertwined with the region's political,

historical, and cultural identities.

Contributors: Benny J. Andr?s,

Jr. Javier Barroso Katherine E. Bliss Eric D. Carter David S. Dalton Carlos S. Dimas Sophie Esch

Renata Forste David L. Garc?a

Le?n Javier E. Garc?a Le?n Jethro

Hern?ndez Berrones Katherine Hirschfeld Emily J. Kirk Gabriela Le?n-P?rez Manuel F.

Medina Christopher D. Mellinger Alicia Z. Miklos Nicole L. Pacino Douglas J. Weatherford



Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.