Ethnographies of health systems are a theoretically rich and rapidly growing area within
medical anthropology. Critical ethnographic work dating back to the 1950s has taken …

In Unmanageable Care, anthropologist Jessica M. Mulligan goes to work at an HMO and
records what it's really like to manage care. Set at a health insurance company dubbed …

With rapid consolidation of American medicine into large‐scale corporations, corporate
strategies are coming to the forefront in health care delivery, requiring a dramatic increase in …

This article introduces a special issue of Medical Anthropology Quarterly on health
insurance and health reform. We begin by reviewing anthropological contributions to the …

Neoliberal reforms have transformed the legislative scope and everyday dynamics around
the right to health care from welfare state social contracts to insurance markets administered …

" Health service conditions in Venezuela are deplorable.... Hospitalization areas without
running water, fully contaminated surgery rooms, not enough anesthesia to treat the …

Forty years after the Alma-Ata declaration, the WHO has reaffirmed its commitment to
Primary Health Care (PHC). We argue that this renewed interest in PHC is being coopted by …

International quality concerns regarding long-term residential care, home to many of the
most vulnerable among us, prompted our examination of the audit and inspection processes …

In Health in Ruins César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero chronicles the story of El Materno—
Colombia's oldest maternity and neonatal health center and teaching hospital—over several …

Quality of care has become a major concern of the US's health care system in recent
decades thanks to an energetic social movement and, more recently, interest from health …