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Health Policy in a Time of Crisis: Abortion, Austerity, and Access

Health Policy in a Time of Crisis: Abortion, Austerity, and Access

Ostrach, Bayla

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Series: Advances in Critical Medical Anthropology

Medical ReferenceAnthropology

ISBN10: 1629583650
ISBN13: 9781629583655
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 24 2017
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Health Policy in a Time of Crisis is a vivid ethnographic account of women and providers navigating the Catalan health system to obtain and provide publicly funded abortion care.

Grounded in critical medical anthropology, the book situates access to publicly funded abortion care in the context of austerity and ongoing threats to recently liberalized laws, examining the actual levels of access in the region. In so doing, it examines the disparities experienced by immigrant and other women, documenting the diverse approaches adopted to overcome obstacles to care. Using accounts from both providers and women seeking care, Ostrach's richly grounded analysis illuminates a healthcare system during a period of economic crisis and disagreement over reproductive governance. Researched against a backdrop of growing movements against austerity and for Catalan independence, the result is at once a study of true access to public health care in times of crisis and a compelling account of some women's determination to go to any length to get the health care they need.

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