Social Inequities and Contemporary Struggles for Collective Health in Latin America

Emily E. Vasquez is in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.Amaya Perez-Brumer is at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, Canada. Richard G. Parker holds appointments at Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association.

• Introduction: Social inequities and contemporary struggles for collective health in Latin America 1. Social Medicine and International Expert Networks in Latin America, 1930-19452. Social medicine, feminism and the politics of population: From transnational knowledge networks to national social movements in Brazil and Mexico3. Latin American social medicine across borders: South–South cooperation and the making of health solidarity4. Collective Health and Regional Integration in Latin America: An opportunity for building a new international health agenda5. Revisiting the social determinants of health agenda from the global South6. Theoretical underpinnings of state institutionalisation of inclusion and struggles in collective health in Latin America7. History and challenges of Brazilian social movements for the achievement of the right to adequate food8. La Revolución Ciudadana and social medicine: Undermining community in the state provision of health care in Ecuador9. Social transformation, collective health and community-based arts: ‘Buen Vivir’ and Ecuador's social circus programme10. ‘Live Beautiful, Live Well’ (‘Vivir Bonito, Vivir Bien’) in Nicaragua: Environmental health citizenship in a post neoliberal context11. Rites of Resistance: Sex Workers’ Fight to Maintain Rights and Pleasure in the Centre of the Response to HIV in Brazil12. Confluent paths: Research and community participation to protect the right to health among transgender women in Peru13. Santo Domingo’s LGBT social movement: At the crossroads of HIV and LGBT activism14. Social Class for Collective Health Research: A Conceptual and Empirical Challenge15. Struggles for the right to health at work in Colombia: The case of associations of workers with work-related illnesses16. The mental health users’ movement in Argentina from the perspective of Latin American Collective Health 17. Global frameworks, local strategies: Women's rights, health, and the tobacco control movement in Argentina18. The decriminalisation of abortion in Colombia as cautionary tale. Social movements, numbers and socio-technical struggles in the promotion of health as a right19. Struggles for maintenance: Patient activism and dialysis dilemmas amidst a global diabetes epidemic