Patrimônio arquitetônico e a história social da saúde brasileira

Affective relatedness, temporalities, and the politics of care in a medical South-South partnership

“…(Bio)medicine has been, and continues to be, perceived as a "white" fi eld by all social and racial segments of the Brazilian population. With regard to health care, large parts of the Brazilian population-especially poor and Black Brazilians-have long had little access to adequate medical care (Bertolli 1996). Although considerable eff orts and improvements were made to include these marginalized populations aft er Brazil's democratization in the late 1980s, the public health sector has since suff ered from a constant scarcity of resources and professionals and an unequal distribution of medical infrastructure throughout the country (cf.…”