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University of North Carolina Press The Right to Live in Health: Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana (Envisioning Cuba)

Name: The Right to Live in Health: Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana (Envisioning Cuba)
Brand: University of North Carolina Press
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Product Description Daniel A. Rodriguez's history of a newly independent Cuba shaking off the U.S. occupation focuses on the intersection of public health and politics in Havana. While medical policies were often used to further American colonial power, in Cuba, Rodriguez argues, they evolved into important expressions of anticolonialnationalismas Cuba struggled to establish itself as a modern state. A younger generation of Cuban medical reformers, including physicians, patients, and officials, imagined disease as a kind of remnant of colonial rule. These new medical nationalists, as Rodriguez calls them, looked to medical science to guide Cuba toward what they envisioned as a healthy and independent future.Rodriguez describes how medicine and new public health projects infused republican Cuba's statecraft, powerfully shaping the lives of Havana's residents. He underscores how various stakeholders, including women and people of color, demanded robust government investment in quality medical care for all Cubans, a central national value that continues today. On a broader level, Rodriguez proposes that Latin America, at least as much as the United States and Europe, was an engine for the articulation of citizens' rights, including the right to health care, in the twentieth century. Review Extremely well-written. . . . A major contribution to the history of modern Cuba and to the history of medicine in Latin America. It will be essential to Latin American scholars and to health professionals, and Rodriguez's lucid writing will make it accessible to undergraduate students.--Social History of MedicineRodriguez deftly weaves multiple scales of analysis--from the microbiological to the ideological to the economic--into his narrative. . . . He is a skillful writer, crafting a story with crisp prose and vivid detail, without sacrificing sophisticated argumentation and empirical depth.--NACLA Report on the Americas About the Author Daniel A. Rodriguez is assistant professor of history at Brown University.

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Brand: University of North Carolina Press
Format: paperback
ASIN: 1469659727
Category: Books > Subjects > Health, Family & Lifestyle > Medical & Healthcare Practitioners > General Medical Issues
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 August 2020
Listed Since: 27 March 2020

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