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Radical prescription : citizenship and the politics of tuberculosis in twentieth-century Cuba /
"In this first comprehensive study of tuberculosis in modern Cuba, Kelly Urban analyzes the medical, social, and governmental responses to the highly contagious disease, particularly as the island was heading into and emerging from the 1959 revolution. Tuberculosis--one of the top three causes...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2023]
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| Colección: | Envisioning Cuba.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "In this first comprehensive study of tuberculosis in modern Cuba, Kelly Urban analyzes the medical, social, and governmental responses to the highly contagious disease, particularly as the island was heading into and emerging from the 1959 revolution. Tuberculosis--one of the top three causes of death in Cuba at the beginning of the twentieth century--provides a window onto broad questions of citizens' rights, biomedicine and public health, and political change"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 146967310X 9781469673103 9781469673097 1469673096 |