Preface: Critical medical anthropology in Latin
America: Trends, contributions, possibilities
Eduardo
Menendez
Introduction
Paola M. Sesia, Jennie Gamlin, Sahra Gibbon and Lina Berrio
Part I: Intercultural health: Critical approaches and current challenges
1.
Anthropological
engagement and interdisciplinary research: The critical approach in indigenous health in Brazil
Esther Jean Langdon and Eliana E. Diehl
2.
Critical
anthropologies of maternal health: Theorising from the field in Mexican
indigenous communities
Jennie Gamlin and Lina Berrio
3.
Susto, the anthropology of fear, and
critical medical anthropology in Mexico and Peru
Frida Jacobo Herrera and David Orr
4.
Post-coital pharmaceuticals and abortion
ambiguity: Avoiding unwanted pregnancy using emergency contraception and
misoprostol in Lima, Peru
Rebecca Irons
Part II: Globalisation and contemporary challenges of border spaces and biologised difference
5. Migrant trajectories and health experiences: Processes of health/illness/care for drug use among migrants in the Mexico-United States bbrder region
Olga Lidia Olivas Hernandez
6.
Border Spaces: Stigma and social vulnerability to HIV-AIDS among Central American male migrants at the Mexico-
Guatemala border
Ruben Munoz, Carmen Fernandez Casanueva, Sonia Morales Miranda and
Kimberly C. Brouwer
7. The ethno-racial basis of chronic diseases: Re-thinking race and ethnicity from a critical epidemiological perspective
Melania Calestani and Laura Montesi
Part III: Political economy and judicialisation
8. Consultation rooms annexed to pharmacies: The Mexican private, low cost, health service system
Rosa Maria Osorio Carranza
9. Naming, framing and shaming through obstetric viloence: A critical approach to the judicialisation of maternal health rights violations in Mexico
Paola M. Sesia
10. Judicialisation and the politics of rare disease in
Brazil: Re-thinking activism and inequalities
Waleska Aureliano and Sahra Gibbon
Afterword
Claudia Fonseca
Index