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Chronic Failures - Kidneys, Regimes of Care, and the Mexican State (Paperback)
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Chronic Failures - Kidneys, Regimes of Care, and the Mexican State (Paperback)
Series: Medical Anthropology
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Chronic Failures: Kidneys, Regimes of Care and the Mexican State is
about Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and the relentless search for
renal care lived out in the context of poverty, inequality and
uneven welfare arrangements. Based on ethnographic research
conducted in the state of Jalisco, this book documents the routes
uninsured Mexican patients take in order to access resource
intensive biotechnical treatments, that is, different modes of
dialysis and organ transplantation. It argues that these routes are
normalized, bureaucratically, socially and epidemiologically, and
turned into a locus for exploitation and profit. Without a coherent
logic of healthcare access, negotiating regimes of renal care has
catastrophic consequences for those with the least resources to
expend in that effort. In carrying both the costs and the burden of
care, the practices of patients without entitlement offer a
critical vantage point on the interplay between the state, markets
in healthcare and the sick body.
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