Revolutionary Medicine : Health and the Body in Post-Soviet Cuba /

An ethnography of post-Soviet Cuba s health-care sector which reveals Cuba to be a pragmatic and contradictory state.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Brotherton, Pierre Sean, 1972-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
CUBA
Krankheit
Gesundheit
Medizinische Versorgung
Medical policy.
Medical care.
Human body > Political aspects.
Biopolitics.
Public health.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Disease & Health Issues.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Health Care Issues.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
public health.
Politique sanitaire.
Sante publique.
Biopolitique > Cuba.
Corps humain > Aspect politique > Cuba.
Politique sanitaire > Cuba.
Health Policy
Public Health
Biopolitics > Cuba.
Medical care > Cuba.
Human body > Political aspects > Cuba.
Medical policy > Cuba.
Cuba.
Cuba
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Bodies in states of crisis
  • Biopolitics in the "special period"
  • The biopolitics of health
  • Expanding therapeutic itineraries
  • Socialist governmentality, public health, and risk
  • Medicalized subjectivities
  • Curing the ills of society
  • Preventative strategies and productive bodies
  • We have to think like capitalists but continue being socialists
  • Turismo y salud, S.A. : the rise of social entrepreneurs
  • My doctor keeps the lights on
  • Bodies entangled in history.

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