{"product_id":"healing-the-body-politic-el-salvadors-popular-struggle-for-health-rights-from-civil-war-to-neoliberal-peace-paperback-softback-9780813547367","title":"Healing the Body Politic; El Salvador's Popular Struggle for Health Rights from Civil War to Neoliberal Peace (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813547367","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHealing the Body Politic\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEl Salvador's Popular Struggle for Health Rights from Civil War to Neoliberal Peace\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSandy Smith-Nonini (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813547367\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 18 February 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e330 pages, 16 illustrations. 13 black and white halftones, 2\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eHealing the Body Politic\u003c\/i\u003e is an impressive and well-argued work of ethnography. Sandy Smith-Nonini has written an interesting and precise book spiced with engaging stories that implant images in readers' minds that will likely persist long after they have put the work down.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Leigh Binford (author of The El Mozote Massacre: Anthropology and Human Rights) \u003cdiv\u003e\"An impressive, well-written book. Highly Recommended.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Choice) \u003cdiv\u003e\"This is an exceptionallywell-researched book, and Smith-Nonini is a talented writer. \u003ci\u003eHealing the Body Politic\u003c\/i\u003e will be of great interest to medical and psychological anthropologists as well as to cultural and social anthropologists, political scientists, historians, sociologists, and scholars in and of Latin America more generally.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e (Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Smith-Nonini's book beautifully demonstrates the political and social struggle to control the symbolic power of healing, and the consequences of these struggles on the health of rural and poor Salvadorans through the past three decades.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Ethos) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eHealing the Body Politic\u003c\/i\u003e is a refreshing read when so much of contemporary anthropology is concerned with critiquing the cultures of expertise in international development institutions and casting doubt on the project of trying to improve health and well-being. Smith-Nonini’s work is instead optimistic; she sees the popular health system as an instantiation of hope.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e (PoLAR)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIncorporating investigative journalism and drawing on interviews with participants and leaders, Sandy Smith-Nonini examines the contested place of health and development in El Salvador over the last two decades. \u003ci\u003eHealing the Body Politic\u003c\/i\u003e recounts the dramatic story of radical health activism from its origins in liberation theology and guerrilla medicine during the third-world country's twelve-year civil war, through development of a remarkable \"popular health system,\" administered by lay providers in a former war zone controlled by leftist rebels. This ethnography casts light on the conflicts between the conservative Ministry of Health and primary health advocates during the 1990s peace process--a time when the government sought to dismantle the effective peasant-run rural system. It offers a rare analysis of the White Marches of 2002û2003, when radicalized physicians rose to national leadership in a successful campaign against privatization of the social security health system. \u003ci\u003eHealing the Body Politic\u003c\/i\u003e contributes to the productive integration of medical and political anthropology by bringing the semiotics of health and the body to bear on cultural understandings of warfare, the state, and globalization.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Prologue: Terror and Healing in El Salvador\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Theorizing the Body and the State\u003cbr\u003e Part One: Exclusion and the Politics of Bare Life\u003cbr\u003e 1. Manufacturing Ill-being\u003cbr\u003e Repression's Repercussions\u003cbr\u003e Part Two: War Against Health\u003cbr\u003e 3. Insurgent Health\u003cbr\u003e 4. Low-Intensity Conflict and the War against Health\u003cbr\u003e 5. Pacification\u003cbr\u003e Part Three: Health against War\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Anatomy of \"\u003cbr\u003ePopular Health\"\u003cbr\u003e in the Repopulated Villages\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Elusive Goal of Community Participation\u003cbr\u003e Part Four: War by Other Means\u003cbr\u003e 8. Popular Health and the State\u003cbr\u003e 9. Disinvesting in Health\u003cbr\u003e 10. The White Marches\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559291941144,"sku":"9780813547367","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/healing-the-body-politic-el-salvadors-popular-struggle-for-health-rights-from-civil-war-to-neoliberal-peace-paperback-softback-9780813547367","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}