A Right to Health : : Medicine, Marginality, and Health Care Reform in Northeastern Brazil / / Jessica Scott Jerome.
In 1988, a new health care system, the Sistema Único de Saúde (Unified Health Care System or SUS) was formally established in Brazil. The system was intended, among other goals, to provide universal access to health care services and to redefine health as a citizen’s right and a duty of the state. A...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Pirambu: Historical and Contemporary Accounts of Citizenship in a Favela
- 2. A History of Welfare and the Poor in Ceará
- 3. Democratizing Health Care: Health Councils in Pirambu
- 4. Prescribing Knowledge: Farmácia Viva and the Rationalization of Traditional Medicine
- 5. Favors, Rights, and the Management of Illness
- 6. Public and Private Medical Care for a New Generation in Pirambu
- Conclusion: A Politics of Health
- Notes
- References
- Index