State of Health: Pleasure and Politics in Venezuelan Health Care under Ch?ívez
University of California Press
ISBN13:
9780520299283
$102.29
State of Health takes readers inside one of the most controversial regimes of the twenty-first centuryVenezuela under Hugo Chávezfor a revealing description of how peoples lives changed for the better as the state began reorganizing society. With lively and accessible storytelling, Amy Cooper chronicles the pleasure people experienced accessing government health care and improving their quality of life. From personalized doctors visits to therapeutic dance classes, new health care programs provided more than medical services. State of Health offers a unique perspective on the significance of the Bolivarian Revolution for ordinary people, demonstrating how the transformed health system succeeded in exciting people and recognizing historically marginalized Venezuelans as bodies who mattered.
- | Author: Amy Cooper
- | Publisher: University Of California Press
- | Publication Date: Apr 02, 2019
- | Number of Pages: 216 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 0520299280
- | ISBN-13: 9780520299283
- Author:
- Amy Cooper
- Publisher:
- University Of California Press
- Publication Date:
- Apr 02, 2019
- Number of pages:
- 216 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 0520299280
- ISBN-13:
- 9780520299283