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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...
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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: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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 (252 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781469673103 |