The Politics of Health, Science and Gender in late 20th and 21st Century Chile

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

This panel includes a multi-disciplinary and innovative approach to the analysis of the Chilean health sector. It examines the repercussions of the radical restructuring and creation of a private health system in the 1980´s and how the dictatorship and re-democratization affected all parts of the system. It includes analysis of the private sector, at the interface of the public and private sector, in terms of reproductive health and the conservative veto players created by privatization, a gendered account of issues of accountability, tracing the trajectory of medical praxis at community health programs and an ethnographic account of experiences with infant maternal health programs at neighborhood primary clinics. The panel addresses questions not only of what policies are implemented and how much is spent, but also how these affect women in particular and includes engages both macro and micro approaches. The papers share a gender perspective and differ in their frameworks, methods, cases and foci which will come together in the discussion to produce a rich dialogue and exchange.

Sub Track

• Economics and Social Policies

Session Organizer

• Jael A Goldsmith Weil, Universidad de Los Lagos Chile

Chair

• Jadwiga E Pieper Mooney, University of Arizona

Individual Presentations

• Market society: a socio-political economy of women’s reproductive healthcare in Chile. - Susan F Murray, King's College London

• Medical Doctors under Military Dictatorship in Chile: Social Medicine Praxis, Survival Strategies, and Resistance - Jadwiga E Pieper Mooney, University of Arizona

• A gendered analysis of the private health sector in Chile - Jasmine Gideon, Birkbeck, University of London

• Everyday practices in Chilean neighborhood health clinics during La Concertación: 1990-2010 - Jael A Goldsmith Weil, Universidad de Los Lagos Chile

Discussant

• Alejandra Ramm