Marked women : the cultural politics of cervical cancer in Venezuela / Rebecca G. Martínez.
2018
RC280.U8 M249 2018
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Marked women : the cultural politics of cervical cancer in Venezuela / Rebecca G. Martínez.
ISBN
9781503606449 (electronic book)
1503606449 (electronic book)
9781503605114
1503605116
9781503606432
1503606430
1503606449 (electronic book)
9781503605114
1503605116
9781503606432
1503606430
Published
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]
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English
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1 online resource (xi, 278 pages.)
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RC280.U8 M249 2018
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362.196/9946600987
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
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Table of Contents
Introduction : Caracas, Venezuela : on arrival
Hospitals, patients, and doctors
The ambiguities of risk : morality, hygiene, and the "other"
Targeting women : bodies out of "control," public health and the body politic
The hospital encounter : bodies marked, mended, and manipulated
Women's agency and resilience : "the way I want to be treated"
Epilogue : from neoliberalism to Chávez.
Hospitals, patients, and doctors
The ambiguities of risk : morality, hygiene, and the "other"
Targeting women : bodies out of "control," public health and the body politic
The hospital encounter : bodies marked, mended, and manipulated
Women's agency and resilience : "the way I want to be treated"
Epilogue : from neoliberalism to Chávez.