Decolonizing Medicine: Indigenous Politics and the Practice of Care in Bolivia

by Gabriela Elisa Morales

Decolonizing Medicine examines Bolivian state-led efforts to decolonize health services during the administration of Evo Morales, Bolivia's first Indigenous president. Governing from 2006 to 2019, the Morales administration undertook sweeping reforms, vowing to reverse intertwined colonial and capitalist systems of oppression and restore Indigenous good living. Predating more recent calls from global health practitioners to "decolonize global...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150364085X
• ISBN13: 9781503640856
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 280 Pages