Table of Contents for Decolonizing Medicine

Decolonizing Medicine
Indigenous Politics and the Practice of Care in Bolivia
Gabriela Elisa Morales

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Preface: Positioning Critique

INTRODUCTION: Waiting for Reform

1.The Bureaucratic Politics of Good Living: Health Policy in the Morales Era

2.Reorienting Care: Benevolence, Violence, and Medical Training

3.Warm and Cold: Cultural Adaptation and the Circulation of Temperature

4.Embodied Redistribution: Extraction and the Labor of Healing

5.Doctor, Patient, Kin: Remaking Hospital Relations

6.Accountable Care: Participatory Planning and the Practice of Complaint

CONCLUSION: Political Aftermaths

Acknowledgments

Notes

References

Index

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