Right to Health - Medicine, Marginality, and Health Care Reform in Northeastern Brazil

This ethnographic study of a low-income neighborhood in the northeastern state of Ceará analyzes the complicated and compromised realities of Brazil's universal health care system, pointing the way toward more successful planning of future reforms.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Pirambu: Historical and Contemporary Accounts of Citizenship in a Favela
• Chapter 2. A History of Welfare and the Poor in Ceará
• Chapter 3. Democratizing Health Care: Health Councils in Pirambu
• Chapter 4. Prescribing Knowledge: Farmácia Viva and the Rationalization of Traditional Medicine
• Chapter 5. Favors, Rights, and the Management of Illness
• Chapter 6. Public and Private Medical Care for a New Generation in Pirambu
• Conclusion: A Politics of Health
• Notes
• References
• Index

About the author

By Jessica Scott Jerome

Summary

This ethnographic study of a low-income neighborhood in the northeastern state of Ceará analyzes the complicated and compromised realities of Brazil’s universal health care system, pointing the way toward more successful planning of future reforms.

Product details

• Authors: Jessica Scott Jerome
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9781477311318
• ISBN: 978-1-4773-1131-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series; Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series; Louann Atkins Temple Women & C
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous