Cancer Intersections: Biomedicine, Health Insurance, and the Paradoxes of Health Care Reform in Neoliberal Colombia

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Cancer Intersections is an ethnographic analysis of the complex and paradoxical efforts to access neoliberal, market—based oncological treatments in Colombia, a country where all patients are legally guaranteed access to medical services, including high—cost ones. Drawing on years of fieldwork in the city of Cali, Camilo Sanz...