Cancer Intersections
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Cancer Intersections

Biomedicine, Health Insurance, and the Paradoxes of Health Care Reform in Neoliberal Colombia

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Cancer Intersections

Biomedicine, Health Insurance, and the Paradoxes of Health Care Reform in Neoliberal Colombia

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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.

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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2024
ISBN
9780520392892
Edition
1
Topic
Sciences sociales
Subtopic
Anthropologie culturelle et sociale

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. Interim I: Update on the Latest Health Care Reform Project
  9. 1. Out-of-Sync Cancer Care
  10. 2. Ordinary Crisis
  11. 3. Malignant yet Benign
  12. 4. Branded Time
  13. 5. Ethics of Exhaustion
  14. Interim II: Catching Up with Pepe
  15. Epilogue: Emancipatory Futures
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography