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Podcast: Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia
Episode: Leishmaniasis in the context of the Colombian Armed conflict
Description: On Episode 520 of the Colombia Calling podcast, we revisit episode 396 and once again get to discuss the disease of leishmaniasis in the context of the Colombian armed conflict and post conflict period with post doctoral fellow Lina Beatriz Pinto-Garcia. Pinto Garcia's ethnographic monograph explores how the Colombian armed conflict and a vector-borne disease called cutaneous leishmaniasis are inextricably connected and mutually constitutive. The stigmatization of the illness as "the guerrilla disease" or the "subversive disease," is reinforced by the state's restriction on access to antileishmanial medicines, a measure that is commonly interpreted as a warfare...