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Revolutionary medicine : health and the body in post-Soviet Cuba / P. Sean Brotherton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brotherton, Pierre Sean, 1972-
- Series:
- Experimental futures.
- Experimental futures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical policy--Cuba.
- Medical policy.
- Human body--Political aspects--Cuba.
- Human body.
- Medical care--Cuba.
- Medical care.
- Biopolitics--Cuba.
- Biopolitics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (287 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An ethnography of post-Soviet Cuba s health-care sector which reveals Cuba to be a pragmatic and contradictory state.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613523792
- 9781280119804
- 1280119802
- 9780822395140
- 0822395142
- OCLC:
- 780320692
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