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The Cuban cure : reason and resistance in Global Science / S.M. Reid-Henry.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reid-Henry, Simon.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biotechnology--Cuba.
- Biotechnology.
- Science--Cuba--History--20th century.
- Science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (213 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- After Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, his second declaration, after socialism, was that Cuba would become a leader in international science. In biotechnology he would be proven right and, today, Cuba counts a meningitis B vaccine and cutting-edge cancer therapies to its name. But how did this politically and geographically isolated country make such impressive advances? Drawing on a unique ethnography, and blending the insights of anthropology, sociology, and geography, The Cuban Cure shows how Cuba came to compete with U. S. pharmaceutical giants-despite a trade embarg
- Contents:
- A biotechnology story
- Imagining science
- Making space for science
- Science City
- Sticky history
- Strategic marginality
- Peripheral assent
- The Cuban cure.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613058522
- 9781283058520
- 1283058529
- 9780226709192
- 0226709191
- OCLC:
- 695993896
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