Roxane Richter: 2 books
Medical Outcasts
Gendered and Institutionalized Xenophobia in Undocumented Forced Migrants' Emergency Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
As witnessed through the firsthand experiences of a frontline activist and international medical aid practitioner, this biosocial political study gives voice to the inequities in undocumented Mexican and Zimbabwean women’s emergency healthcare access and treatment in Houston, United States of America,...
Witchcraft as a Social Diagnosis
Traditional Ghanaian Beliefs and Global Health
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
This interdisciplinary manuscript examines one nonprofit’s five years of medical outreach in the condemned witches village of Gnani in Ghana, focusing on the clashes between traditional Ghanaian beliefs, African religious tenets, and contemporary Western medical science. The research draws upon...