Health Care In Maya Guatemala
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Health Care In Maya Guatemala
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Author : John Palmer Hawkins
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2007
Health Care In Maya Guatemala written by John Palmer Hawkins and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Medical categories.
This book examines medical systems and institutions in three K'iche' Maya communities to reveal the conflicts between indigenous medical care and the Guatemalan biomedical system. It shows the necessity of cultural understanding if poor people are to have access to medicine that combines the best of both local tradition and international biomedicine.
Privatization And The New Medical Pluralism
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Author : Anita Chary
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2015-09-17
Privatization And The New Medical Pluralism written by Anita Chary and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-17 with Health & Fitness categories.
Privatization and the New Medical Pluralism is the first collection of its kind to explore the contemporary terrain of healthcare in Guatemala through reflective ethnography. This volume offers a nuanced portrait of the effects of healthcare privatization for indigenous Maya people, who have historically endured numerous disparities in health and healthcare access. The collection provides an updated understanding of medical pluralism, which concerns not only the tensions and exchanges between ethnomedicine and biomedicine that have historically shaped Maya people’s experiences of health, but also the multiple competing biomedical institutions that have emerged in a highly privatized, market-driven environment of care. The contributors examine the macro-structural and micro-level implications of the proliferation of non-governmental organizations, private fee-for-service clinics, and new pharmaceuticals against the backdrop of a deteriorating public health system. In this environment, health seekers encounter new challenges and opportunities, relationships between the public, private, and civil sectors transform, and new forms of inequality in access to healthcare abound. This volume connects these themes to critical studies of global and public health, exposing the strictures and apertures of healthcare privatization for marginalized populations in Guatemala.
Health Care Perspectives
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Author : Rikki Nitzkin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Health Care Perspectives written by Rikki Nitzkin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Indians of Mexico categories.
Health In The Highlands
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Author : David Carey, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023
Health In The Highlands written by David Carey, Jr. and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Medical care categories.
"In the early to mid-twentieth century, the governments of Ecuador and Guatemala sought to expand Western medicine within their countries, with the goals of addressing endemic diseases and improving infant and maternal health. These efforts often clashed with indigenous medical practices, particularly in the rural highlands. Drawing on extensive, original archival research, historian David Carey Jr. shows that indigenous populations embraced a syncretic approach to health, combining traditional and new practices. At times, the governments of both nations encouraged--or at least allowed--such a synthesis, yet they also attacked indigenous lifeways, going so far as to criminalize native medical practitioners and to conduct medical experiments on indigenous people without consent. Health in the Highlands traces the experiences of curanderos, midwives, bonesetters, witches, doctors, and nurses--and the indigenous people they served. Carey interrogates the relationship between 'progressive' public health policy and indigenous well-being, offering lessons from the past that remain relevant in the present. Our best way forward, this history suggests, may be a compassionate syncretism that joins indigenous approaches to healing with science and a pursuit of environmental and social justice"--
Guatemala
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Author : Peter Rohloff
language : en
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
Release Date : 2015-03-03
Guatemala written by Peter Rohloff and has been published by Dartmouth College Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-03 with Medical categories.
Students and health practitioners traveling abroad seek insightful and relevant background material to orient them to the new environment. This volume on Guatemala provides historical, political, and cultural background for contemporary health care challenges, especially related to poverty. Combining the personal insights of the authors and Guatemalan medical personnel with a broader discussion of the uniquely Guatemalan context, it is an essential guide for anyone heading to Guatemala to do health care-related work.
Health In The Highlands
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Author : David Carey Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-07-11
Health In The Highlands written by David Carey Jr. and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-11 with History categories.
Populated by curanderos, midwives, bonesetters, witches, doctors, nurses, and the indigenous people they served, this nuanced history demonstrates how cultural and political history, misogyny, racism, and racialization influence public health. In the first half of the twentieth century, the governments of Ecuador and Guatemala sought to spread scientific medicine to their populaces, working to prevent and treat malaria, typhus, and typhoid; to boost infant and maternal well-being; and to improve overall health. Drawing on extensive, original archival research, David Carey Jr. shows that highland indigenous populations in the two countries tended to embrace a syncretic approach to health, combining traditional and new practices. At times, both governments encouraged—or at least allowed—such a synthesis: even what they saw as "nonscientific" care was better than none. Yet both, especially Guatemala's, also wrote off indigenous lifeways and practices with both explicit and implicit racism, going so far as to criminalize native medical providers and to experiment on indigenous people without their consent. Both nations had authoritarian rule, but Guatemala's was outright dictatorial, tending to treat both women and indigenous people as subjects to be controlled and policed. Ecuador, on the other hand, advanced a more pluralistic vision of national unity, and had somewhat better outcomes as a result.
A New Dawn In Guatemala
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Author : Richard Luecke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
A New Dawn In Guatemala written by Richard Luecke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Social Science categories.
Refractions Of Doing Good
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Author : Anna Christina Martinez-Hume
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Refractions Of Doing Good written by Anna Christina Martinez-Hume and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Electronic dissertations categories.
On a global scale, NGOs have played an important role in development and addressing healthcare inequities over the last several decades. Yet in recent years, the work of NGOs is continuously impacted by processes of socio-cultural, political, and economic change in increasingly post-neoliberal contexts. NGOs working within a social justice framework for health are a unique area to examine this shift as they continue to operate in the ebb and flow of changing fields of social power. The Guatemalan context has provided a salient example of this process, as changes in NGO-state relationships, health policy, and an increasingly pro-impunity state that protects perpetuators of corruption, have steadily impacted the subjectivities, resources, and practices of those working for NGOs. This dissertation explores the changing socio-political healthcare climate in Guatemala and its effects on the abilities of NGO workers to continue serving the needs of marginalized Indigenous Maya communities in the intersecting fields of health and social justice. Subjectivity is a useful theoretical framework for understanding how this larger shift in socio-political context impacts the actions, perceptions, and experiences of NGO workers involved in health intervention.This dissertation is guided by the notion that subjectivity is the site in which larger socio-cultural, economic, and political forces shaping social policy can likewise be seen to shape actors immersed in the ramifications of policy change. I propose that subjectivity is an amalgamation of individually, institutionally, and politically formed subjectivities. NGO worker's subjective realities are individually formed through their unique personal experiences and identities; institutionally formed through the structure, history, and agenda of their organizations and funding institutions; and politically formed through their intrinsic and fluctuating relationship with the state and government institutions.This dissertation presents findings from a research project conducted over several summers between 2014 and 2019 exploring NGO workers' experiences in health intervention from multiple NGOs in Guatemala. Utilizing semi-structured interviews, participant observation, textual and discourse analysis, this dissertation examines how NGO workers continue to serve Indigenous Maya communities despite dramatic shifts in state supports for NGOs. This work discusses how factors such as identity, indigeneity, and institutional legacy can impact the health interventions and community activism implemented in Indigenous communities. NGO workers navigate both their personal subjectivity as Indigenous individuals with unique connections to the Maya community, and an institutional subjectivity as actors immersed in NGO rhetorics of development. These competing subjectivities yielded profoundly gendered understandings of empowerment and feminist solidarity within approaches for health intervention. NGO workers also possess institutional and political subjectivities that are defined by a complex relationship with the state. Health activism in the context of NGOs can be transmuted over time through contractual relationships with the state whereby bureaucratic policies that place value on managerialism over social justice, thoroughly shift the nature and content of health intervention. Ultimately, I argue there is a fundamental link between non-governmental and government institutions, as NGO workers' political subjectivities are continuously shaped by politically driven policy change, authoritative discourse, and popular belief. It is through this fundamental link with the state where regimes of truth manifest that can ultimately manipulate the actions of NGOs, refracting their perceptions of "doing good" for the most marginalized.
Wellness Beyond Words
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Author : T. S. Harvey
language : en
Publisher: UNM Press
Release Date : 2013
Wellness Beyond Words written by T. S. Harvey and has been published by UNM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Anthropological linguistics categories.
"This anthropological account of Maya language use in health care in highland Guatemala explores some of the cultural and linguistic factors that can complicate communication in the practice of medicine. Bringing together the analytical tools of linguistic and medical anthropology, T. S. Harvey offers a rare comparative glimpse into Maya intra-cultural therapeutic and cross-cultural biomedical interactions"--
Model Of Indigenous Maya Medicine In Guatemala
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Author : Karin Eder
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Model Of Indigenous Maya Medicine In Guatemala written by Karin Eder and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Central America categories.