{"product_id":"conjuring-the-state-public-health-encounters-in-highland-ecuador-1908-1945-hardcover","title":"Conjuring the State: Public Health Encounters in Highland Ecuador, 1908-1945 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eA. Kim Clark\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, Best Book Prize, LASA Ecuadorian Studies Section \u003cbr\u003e The First English-Language Book on the History of Public Health in Ecuador during the Early and Mid-Twentieth Century \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The Ecuadorian Public Health Service was founded in 1908 in response to the arrival of bubonic plague to the country. A. Kim Clark uses this as a point of departure to explore questions of social history and public health by tracing how the service extended the reach of its broader programs across the national landscape and into domestic spaces. Delving into health conditions in the country--especially in the highlands--and efforts to combat disease, she shows how citizens' encounters with public health officials helped make abstract ideas of state government tangible. By using public health as a window to understand social relations in a country deeply divided by region, class, and ethnicity, \u003ci\u003eConjuring the State\u003c\/i\u003e examines the cultural, social, and political effects of the everyday practices of public health officials.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA. Kim Clark \u003c\/b\u003eis professor of anthropology at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. She is the author of T\u003ci\u003ehe Redemptive Work: Railway and Nation in Ecuador, 1895-1930\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGender, State and Medicine in Highland Ecuador: Modernizing Women, Modernizing the State \u003c\/i\u003eand coeditor, with Marc Becker, of \u003ci\u003eHighland Indians and the State in Modern Ecuador.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 05, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51749207408928,"sku":"9780822947820","price":89.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f976e45f806ca080f52b87c33730bb5e.webp?v=1779926521","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/conjuring-the-state-public-health-encounters-in-highland-ecuador-1908-1945-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}