How Health Care Really Works: The Case of an Andean Community in Southern Cusco, Peru

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  • Christiane Paponnet-Cantat University of New Brunswick

Abstract

The author of this paper examines the type of health care delivered in Capacmarca?a peasant community of the southern Peruvian Andes. The study shows that the health-care system fails to serve the peasant population. Because of the political and cultural marginalization of the region, health professionals play an important role in the reproduction of structures of gamonal domination.

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Author Biography

Christiane Paponnet-Cantat, University of New Brunswick

Christiane Paponnet-Cantat is Associate Professor at the University of New Brunswick (Fredericton Campus). Currently, she is also Director of the Atlantic branch of the Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL-Atlantic). She has done field and archival research in the Cusco region since the early 1980s.

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Published

2022-06-02

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Paponnet-Cantat, C. (2022). How Health Care Really Works: The Case of an Andean Community in Southern Cusco, Peru. Anthropologica, 37(2), 123–139. Retrieved from https://cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/2013

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Vol. 37 No. 2 (1995)

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