Revolutionary doctors : how Venezuela and Cuba are changing the world's conception of health care / by Steve Brouwer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brouwer, Steve, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community health services--Venezuela.

Community health services.

Community health services--Cuba.

Medical education--Venezuela.

Medical education.

Medical education--Cuba.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Monthly Review Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Revolutionary Doctors gives readers a first-hand account of Venezuela's innovative and inspiring program of community healthcare, designed to serve-and largely carried out by-the poor themselves. Drawing on long-term participant observations as well as in-depth research, Brouwer tells the story of Venezuela's Integral Community Medicine program, in which doctor-teachers move into the countryside and poor urban areas to recruit and train doctors from among peasants and workers. Such programs were first developed in Cuba, and Cuban medical personnel play a key role in Venezuela today as advisor

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Where Do Revolutionary Doctors Come From?""; ""2. Solidarity and Internationalism""; ""3. Creating Two, Three . . . One Hundred Thousand Che Guevaras""; ""4. Medicine in Revolutionary Cuba""; ""5. Barrio Adentro""; ""6. Witnessing Barrio Adentro in Action""; ""7. New Doctors for Venezuela""; ""8. Building Community Medicine on a Daily Basis""; ""9. Revolutionary Medicine in Conflict with the Past""; ""10. The Battle of Ideas and the Battle for Our America""; ""11. The War on Ideas: The U.S. Counterinsurgency Campaign""

""12. Practicing Medicine, Practicing Revolution""""Notes""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781583672693

1583672699

9781583672686

1583672680

OCLC:

744333877