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In Health in Ruins Cesar Ernesto Abadia-Barrero chronicles the
story of El Materno-Colombia's oldest maternity and neonatal health
center and teaching hospital-over several decades as it faced
constant threats of government shutdown. Using team-based and
collaborative ethnography to analyze the social life of neoliberal
health policy, Abadia-Barrero details the everyday dynamics around
teaching, learning, and working in health care before, during, and
after privatization. He argues that health care privatization is
not only about defunding public hospitals; it also ruins rich
traditions of medical care by denying or destroying ways of
practicing medicine that challenge Western medicine. Despite
radical cuts in funding and a corrupt and malfunctioning privatized
system, El Materno's professors, staff, and students continued to
find ways to provide innovative, high-quality, and noncommodified
health care. By tracking the violences, conflicts, hopes, and
uncertainties that characterized the struggles to keep El Materno
open, Abadia-Barrero demonstrates that any study of medical care
needs to be embedded in larger political histories.
In Health in Ruins Cesar Ernesto Abadia-Barrero chronicles the
story of El Materno-Colombia's oldest maternity and neonatal health
center and teaching hospital-over several decades as it faced
constant threats of government shutdown. Using team-based and
collaborative ethnography to analyze the social life of neoliberal
health policy, Abadia-Barrero details the everyday dynamics around
teaching, learning, and working in health care before, during, and
after privatization. He argues that health care privatization is
not only about defunding public hospitals; it also ruins rich
traditions of medical care by denying or destroying ways of
practicing medicine that challenge Western medicine. Despite
radical cuts in funding and a corrupt and malfunctioning privatized
system, El Materno's professors, staff, and students continued to
find ways to provide innovative, high-quality, and noncommodified
health care. By tracking the violences, conflicts, hopes, and
uncertainties that characterized the struggles to keep El Materno
open, Abadia-Barrero demonstrates that any study of medical care
needs to be embedded in larger political histories.
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