A right to health : : medicine, marginality, and health care reform in northeastern Brazil / / by Jessica Scott Jerome.

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Superior document:Louann Atkins Temple women & culture series ; book 37
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Place / Publishing House:Austin, Texas : : University of Texas Press,, 2015.
Year of Publication:2015
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Series:Louann Atkins Temple women & culture series ; bk. 37.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Pirambu : historical and contemporary accounts of citizenship in a favela
  • A history of welfare and the poor in Ceara
  • Democratizing health care : health councils in Pirambu
  • Prescribing knowledge : farmacia viva and the rationalization of traditional medicine
  • Favors, rights, and the management of illness
  • Public and private medical care for a new generation in Pirambu
  • Conclusion : a politics of health.