Cancer Intersections : Biomedicine, Health Insurance, and the Paradoxes of Health Care Reform in Neoliberal Colombia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sanz, Camilo, 1979-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cancer--Treatment--Colombia--21st century.

Cancer.

Health care reform--Colombia--21st century.

Health care reform.

Medical care--Colombia--21st century.

Medical care.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2024.

Summary:

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. 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 ones. 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 observation, 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 it is unlikely to change the course of the disease.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Interim I: Update on the 2023 Health Care Reform

1. Out-of-Sync Cancer Care

2. Ordinary Crisis

3. Malignant yet Benign

4. Branded Time

5. Ethics of Exhaustion

Interim II: Catching Up with Pepe

Epilogue: Emancipatory Futures

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

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ISBN:

9780520392892

0520392892

OCLC:

1457221844