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Healing
the Body Politic
Price: $29.95
Subtitle: El
Salvador's Popular Struggle for Health Rights from Civil war to
Neoliberal Peace
Author:
Sandy Smith-Nonini
Subject: Latin American, Anthropology, Health and Medicine
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4736-7
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4735-0
Pages:
330 pages
Publication Date: July 2010
Series:
Studies
in
Medical Anthropology
Praise:
"An impressive, well-written book. Highly Recommended."
—Choice, Jan 2011
"Healing
the Body Politic is an impressive and well-argued work of
ethnography. Sandy Smith-Nonini has written an interesting and precise
book spiced with engaging stories that implant images in readers’ minds
that will likely persist long after they have put the work down."-Leigh
Binford, author of The El Mozote
Massacre: Anthropology and Human Rights
"Sandy Smith-Nonini provides a sweeping
tour de force on how popular community-based health care can present a
model of social medicine that heals and cures individual bodies and
body politics alike."-James Quesada, professor of anthropology, San
Francisco State University
Description:
Incorporating investigative journalism and
drawing on interviews with participants and leaders, Sandy Smith-Nonini
examines the contested place of health and development in El Salvador
over the last two decades. Healing
the Body Politic 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. This
ethnography casts light on the conflicts between the conservative
Ministry of Health and primary health advocates during the 1990s peace
process—a time when the government sought to dismantle the effective
peasant-run rural system. It offers a rare analysis of the White
Marches of 2002–2003, when radicalized physicians rose to national
leadership in a successful campaign against privatization of the social
security health system. Healing the
Body Politic contributes to the productive 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.
About the Author:
Sandy
Smith-Nonini is a research assistant professor of anthropology
at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. She is the recipient
of the Peter K. New Prize from the Society for Applied Anthropology and
the Richard Carley Hunt Award from the Wenner Gren Foundation
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