Author: P. Sean Brotherton
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ISBN: B007JQHF06
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Revolutionary Medicine: Health and the Body in Post-Soviet Cuba (Experimental Futures)
Revolutionary Medicine is a richly textured examination of the ways that Cuba's public health care system has changed during the past two decades and of the meaning of those changes for ordinary Cubans. Download Revolutionary Medicine medical books for free.
Until the Soviet bloc collapsed in 1989, socialist Cuba encouraged citizens to view access to health care as a human right and the state's responsibility to provide it as a moral imperative. Since the loss of Soviet subsidies and the tightening of the U.S. economic embargo, Cuba's government has found it hard to provide the high-quality universal medical care that was so central to the revolutionary socialist project. In
Revolutionary Medicine, P. Sean Brotherton deftly integrates theory and history with ethnographic research in H Get Revolutionary Medicine our bestseller medical books.
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Until the Soviet bloc collapsed in 1989, socialist Cuba encouraged citizens to view access to health care as a human right and the state's responsibility to provide it as a moral imperative. Since the loss of Soviet subsidies and the tightening of the U.S. economic embargo, Cuba's government has found it hard to provide the high-quality universal medical care that was so central to the revolutionary socialist project Sean Brotherton deftly integrates theory and history with ethnographic research in H
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