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Cancer Intersections
Camilo Sanz
其他書名
Biomedicine, Health Insurance, and the Paradoxes of Health Care Reform in Neoliberal Colombia
出版Univ of California Press, 2024-09-17
主題History / Latin America / GeneralMedical / Health PolicyMedical / Health Risk AssessmentMedical / Public HealthPolitical Science / Public Policy / Health CareSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & SocialSocial Science / ArchaeologySocial Science / Ethnic Studies / Caribbean & Latin American Studies
ISBN05203928849780520392885
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=GC0REQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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Cancer Intersections is an ethnographic analysis of the complex and paradoxical efforts to access neoliberal, market-based oncological treatments in Colombia, a country where all patients are legally guaranteed access to medical services, including high-cost ones. Drawing on years of fieldwork in the city of Cali, Camilo Sanz explores the deep entanglements between medical, legal, and policy practices that share a common goal of treating and curing cancer but are hindered by bureaucratic procedures, pernicious financial interests, and class politics. Cancer Intersections shows how the interplay of these hurdles dictates the rhythm at which patients access treatment and how even in resource-rich settings, patients suffer because of market imperatives that shape how cancer treatments unfold. Through careful and measured observation, Sanz unveils how a neoliberal universal health care regime delays access to care for those reliant on public assistance, which means that some patients will start expensive treatments only after it is unlikely to change the course of the disease.