TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ostrach,Bayla
TI  - Health policy in a time of crisis: Abortion, austerity, and access 
T2  - Advances in Critical Medical Anthropology
SN  - 9781629583648
AV  - RA516.C37 O88 2017
U1  - 362.109467 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - Public health
KW  - Spain
KW  - Catalonia
KW  - Medical policy
KW  - Women's health services
KW  - Public Health
KW  - Abortion, Legal
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-183) and index; People, policy, and practice -- Catalunya, crisis and cuts -- Uneasy collaboration -- Las Does (The Women) -- Confronting obstacles
N2  - This timely book examines a fundamental international issue in health care access: the gap between codified policy-including health laws that guarantee access to particular kinds of health care as a human right, right of citizenship, or right of residence-and the actual ability of people to receive the supposedly guaranteed health services. The author-draws on her extensive fieldwork at an abortion clinic in Catalonia, Spain, to reveal the diverse problems women, and other marginalized people, face in seeking health-care services;-examines the larger political-economic and cultural contexts of Catalonian society to show how women can and do overcome obstacles;-using the ethnography of the abortion clinic, analyzes the impact of economic crisis, and the resulting shifts in cultural and political identities, on women's and providers' perceptions of proper access to public health services;-looks beyond Spain-to Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere-to the global problem regarding the delivery of health care to powerless peoples.- -
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