Contradictions in health: on acumulation and legitimation in Latin American neoliberal and social states

This text uses the perspective of the contradiction between capital accumulation and legitimation of the social order to examine Latin American health systems. Analyzes, on one hand, the new areas and strategies of accumulation in health under neoliberal globalization and, on the other, the recovery of health as a public domain to assure the universal right to health by progressive governments. It observes how the guarantee of this right has turned it into a field of political struggle where private economic agents and progressive governments clash and how the neoliberal offensive has appropriated ideologically the progressive discourse but changing its content.