Healing the Masses: Cuban Health Politics at Home and Abroad

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Release: 1993-10-28
Publisher: University of California Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0520082982
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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How has Cuba, a small, developing country, achieved its stunning medical breakthroughs? Hampered by scarce resources and a long-standing U.S. embargo, Cuba nevertheless has managed to provide universal access to health care, comprehensive health education, and advanced technology, even amid desperate economic conditions. Moreover, Cuba has sent disaster relief, donations of medical supplies and technology, and cadres of volunteer doctors throughout the world, emerging, in Castro's phrase, as a "world medical power."
In her significant and timely study, Julie Feinsilver explores the Cuban medical phenomenon, examining how a governmental obsession with health has reaped medical and political benefits at home and abroad. As a result of Cuba's forward strides in health care, infant mortality rates are low even by First World standards. Cuba has successfully dealt with the AIDS epidemic in a manner that has aroused controversy and that some claim has infringed on individual liberties--is Download Healing the Masses for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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