Revolutionary Medicine: Health and the Body in Post-Soviet Cuba

by P. Sean Brotherton

Book Overview

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. 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822352052
• ISBN13: 9780822352051
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"