List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Healthcare in Latin America; History, Society, Culture
David S. Dalton and Douglas J. Weatherford
Part 1. Healthcare in Mexico
Chapter 1. Healers and Doctors: A History of the Healing Occupations in Mexico
Jethro Hernández Berrones
Chapter 2. A Systematic Approach to Health and Development in Mexico over the Last Century
Katherine E. Bliss
Chapter 3. Health after Internal Migration within Mexico: The Role of Age at Migration, Motivations, and Place of Origin and Destination
Gabriela León-Pérez
Chapter 4. Practicing Medicine in Post-Revolution Mexico: The Case of John Steinbeck and Emilio Fernández
Douglas J. Weatherford
Part 2. Healthcare in United States Latino/a/x Communities
Chapter 5. Colonial Care: Medicalizing Latino/a Bodies in the United States, 1894–1970s
Benny J. Andrés Jr.
Chapter 6. Healthcare in the US Latinx Community: Challenges, Disparities, and Opportunities
Christopher D. Mellinger
Chapter 7. Eugenics and Doubly Marginalized Mexican and Chicana Women: Forced Sterilizations in Renee Tajima-Peña’s No más bebés/No More Babies
David S. Dalton
Part 3. Healthcare in Central America and the Caribbean
Chapter 8. Cuba and the Cuban Healthcare System
Katherine Hirschfeld
Chapter 9. Disaster Preparedness and Management in Cuba: A Health-Based Approach
Emily J. Kirk
Chapter 10. Stories of Giving Birth in Central America: Class, Race, and Politics in Women’s Health
Sophie Esch and Alicia Z. Miklos
Part 4. Healthcare in the Andean Region
Chapter 11. A Revolution in Healthcare? The Politics of Public Health in Postrevolutionary Bolivia
Nicole L. Pacino
Chapter 12. Maternal and Child Health in the Andean Region
Renata Forste
Chapter 13. Transness and Disability in Discourses of Access to Healthcare in the Colombian Press (2000–2019)
Javier E. García León and David L. García León
Chapter 14. Biomedicine and Ancestral Knowledges: Vengo volviendo and Healthcare Services in Ecuador
Manuel F. Medina
Part 5. Healthcare in the Southern Cone
Chapter 15. Health Systems in Argentina and Chile: A Comparative History
Eric D. Carter
Chapter 16. Health as a Right in Brazil and Argentina
Carlos S. Dimas
Chapter 17. The Politics and Medical Discourse of Intersexuality in Argentina through Film: Lucía Puenzo’s XXY
Javier Barroso
List of Contributors
Index
