Healing the body politic [[electronic resource] ] : El Salvador's popular struggle for health rights - from civil war to neoliberal peace / / Sandy Smith-Nonini

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910791333903321
• Autore: Smith-Nonini Sandra C
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Brunswick, NJ, : Rutgers University Press, c2010
• ISBN: 1-282-56244-4; 9786612562440; 0-8135-4925-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (331 p.)
• Collana: Studies in medical anthropology
• Disciplina: 362.1097284
• Soggetti: Public health - El Salvador; Medical policy - El Salvador; Community health services - El Salvador; Social conflict - Health aspects - El Salvador
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PROLOGUE: TERROR AND HEALING IN EL SALVADOR -- Introduction: Theorizing the Body and the State -- 1. Manufacturing Ill-being: An Epidemiology of Development and Terror -- 2. Repression’s Repercussions: Pragmatic Solidarity and the Body Politic -- 3. Insurgent Health: How Liberation Theology and Guerrilla Medicine Planted the Seeds of “Popular” Health -- 4. Low-Intensity Conflict and the War against Health -- 5. Pacification: Psychological Warfare and the Uses of Medicine -- 6. The Anatomy of “Popular Health” in the Repopulated Villages -- 7. The Elusive Goal of Community Participation -- 8. Popular Health and the State: Reasserting Biomedical Hegemony -- 9. Disinvesting in Health: Multilateral Lending and the Clientelist State -- 10. The White Marches: Healing the Body Politic -- Epilogue: Toward a Moral Politics -- Notes -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 1990's 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.