Description: Cancer Intersections : Biomedicine, Health Insurance, and the Paradoxes of Health Care Reform in Neoliberal Colombia, Paperback by Sanz, Camilo, ISBN 0520392884, ISBN-13 9780520392885, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "Cancer Intersections is an ethnographic analysis of the complex and paradoxical efforts to access neoliberal, market-based oncological treatments in Colombia, a country where all patients are legally guaranteed access to medical services, including high-cost oncology treatments. Drawing on years of fieldwork in the city of Cali, Camilo Sanz explores the deep entanglements between medical, legal, and policy practices that share a common goal of treating and curing cancer but are hindered by bureaucratic procedures, pernicious financial interests, and class politics. Cancer Intersections shows how the interplay of these hurdles dictates the rhythm at which patients access treatment and how even in resource-rich settings, patients suffer because of market imperatives that shape how cancer treatments unfold. Through careful and measured ethnography, Sanz unveils how a neoliberal universal health care regime delays access to care for those reliant on public assistance, which means that some patients will start expensive treatments only after they are unlikely to change the course of the disease"--
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Book Title: Cancer Intersections : Biomedicine, Health Insurance, and the Par
Number of Pages: 176 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Cancer Intersections : Biomedicine, Health Insurance, and the Paradoxes of Health Care Reform in Neoliberal Colombia
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Public Health, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Latin America / General
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 2024
Item Weight: 9.9 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Camilo Sanz
Subject Area: Social Science, Medical, History
Item Length: 0.9 in
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
