Life, Death, And In-Between On The U.S.-Mexico Border

by Martha Oehmke Loustaunau, Mary Jo Bane

Overview

Loustaunau and Sanchez-Bane combine their many years of association and collaboration dealing with health issues of the U.S.-Mexico border area, to bring together a series of chapters illustrating that asi es la vida, "that's life," need not indicate a fatalistic acceptance that poverty, sickness, misery, and misfortune must be taken in stride. Focusing on specific problems of employment, education, drug addiction, violence, healthcare and women's issues, the chapters in this book encourage greater understanding of the U.S.-Mexico border. The contributors have researched, studied, worked with, or have been borderlanders themselves.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313003561
Publisher:	ABC-CLIO, Incorporated
Publication date:	10/30/1999
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	498 KB

About the Author

MARTHA OEHMKE LOUSTAUNAU is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology/Anthropology at New Mexico State University.

MARY SÁNCHEZ-BANE, now deceased, was a health educator who worked with the U.S. Mexico Border Health Association in El Paso, Texas.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Xavier Leus

Introduction

Demographic Factors Affecting the U.S.-Mexico Border Health Status by Federico Gerardo de Cosió and AndRÉs Boadella

The Border Colonias and the Problem of Communication: Applying Anthropology for Outreach by Duncan Earle

Life Histories of Four Chicano Heroin Injecting Drug Users in Laredo, Texas by Avelardo VÁldez and Alberto G. Mata

Dangerous Relationships: Effects of Early Exposure to Violence in Women's Lives on the Border by João B. Ferreira-Pinto, Rebeca L. Ramos, and Alberto Mata

The Difference a Line Makes: Women's Lives in Douglas, Arizona and Agua Prieta, Sonora by Ellen R. Hansen

Creating a Future for Hispanic Mothers and Daughters on the U.S.-Mexico Border by Josefina Villamil Tinajero and Dee Ann Spencer

Living with HIV/AIDS in a Rural Border County by Donna Castañeda

Community-Based Health Promotion vs. Community Health Advisors: Prevention Works, When They Do It by Mary Sánchez Bane and Eva Moya GuzMÁn

Rural Health on the Border and New Mexico's Models for Care, Community Empowerment, and Cooperation by Martha Oehmke Loustaunau

The Medical Care Systems in Mexico and the United States: Convergence or Deterioration? The View from the Border by David C. Warner

The Sunland Park/Camino Real Partnership: Landfill Politics in a Border Community by Ellen Rosell

Community-University Partnerships Addressing Environmental Issues along the U.S.-Mexico Border by James VanDerslice, Amy K. Liebman, and Theresa L. Byrd

Afterword

Index