Towards Communicative Justice in Health.
Med Anthropol
; 36(4): 287-304, 2017.
Article
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-28350182
ABSTRACT
This article approaches care from a different angle by looking ethnographically at how it is shaped by structural differences in the power to control the circulation of knowledge. I focus on an investigation conducted by people classified as "indigenous", of an epidemic that killed 38 children and young adults in a Venezuelan rainforest. I trace how health/communicative inequities structured clinical interactions, documents, epidemiological investigations, news stories, and dialogues with healers, thwarting the identification of the epidemic, clinically identified as rabies. Although the Bolivarian socialist government provided access to care, professionals denigrated parents' contributions to care and communication and reduced complex, unequal relations between languages to practical problems of translation. Pointing to parallels with US social movements, I suggest that responding to demands for communicative justice in health requires seeing how health inequities are entangled with health/communicative inequities. The typographical slash points to importance of challenging the subdisciplinary boundary-work that relegates their study to non-overlapping conversations in medical and linguistic anthropology.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Justiça Social
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Disparidades em Assistência à Saúde
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Epidemias
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Medicina Tradicional
Tipo de estudo:
Qualitative_research
Aspecto:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
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Equity_inequality
Limite:
Adult
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Child
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Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Região como assunto:
America do sul
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Venezuela
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Med Anthropol
Ano de publicação:
2017
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos