In Pursuit of Health Equity : A History of Latin American Social Medicine /

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"Drawing on vast source materials, and with an ambitious narrative scope that transcends national borders, Eric D. Carter offers the first comprehensive intellectual and political history of the social medicine movement in Latin America, from the early twentieth century to the present day"...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carter, Eric D. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Medical policy > Developing countries.
Medical policy > Latin America > History.
Physicians > Political activity > Latin America > History > 20th century.
Public health > Latin America > History > 20th century.
Social medicine > Latin America > International cooperation.
Social medicine > Political aspects > Latin America.
Social medicine > Latin America > History > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Roots: the origins of social medicine in Latin America
  • Networks: how social medicine traveled internationally, 1920s-1940s
  • Politics: social medicine and health reform in Chile
  • Fragmentation: the politics of health and the welfare state in Argentina
  • Hiatus: modernization and the fading of social medicine in the early Cold War
  • Revival: the second wave of Latin American social medicine
  • Resistance: social medicine and its impact, 1990s-2000s
  • Making sense of Latin American social medicine.

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