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Culture in the Clinic : Miami and the Making of Modern Medicine /

"After the 1959 Cuban Revolution, hundreds of thousands of Cuban refugees came to Miami. With this influx, the city's health-care system was overwhelmed not just by the number of patients but also by the differences in culture. Mainstream medicine was often inaccessible or inadequate to Mi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mas, Catherine (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Healing at the crossroads
  • Passing the foreign: Cuban physicians, American medicine, and Cold War Miami
  • Mapping shadows: medical anthropology and the making of the ethnic body
  • Culture brokers and the political economy of culturally appropriate care
  • Ritual crimes: moral panic and the medical incorporation of Hispanic America
  • Between Harvard and Haiti: the crossroads of medical anthropology and global health
  • Healthcare
  • plus.