Caring for Them from Birth to Death: The Practice of Community-Based Cuban Medicine Pdf

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Edition: 1
Release: 2008-02-07
Publisher: Lexington Books
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0739118277
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Caring for Them from Birth to Death pdf
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This study examines Cuba's medical system from the inside out and illuminates what the numbers cannot—how the system works and what Cuban life is like. Through qualitative interviews and participant observation, the everyday realities of the Cuban experience are revealed and through them, the values and ideologies of the revolution. This book shows how universal access to medical services can make the difference in the lives of poor people. Cuba does more than provide free services however; it has redefined what medicine is and what doctors and nurses can be.
This work deepens the scholarship on Cuban medicine. It is the first to focus solely on the community based primary care system—Comprehensive Family Medicine and its activist health care professionals—the family doctors and nurses. Caring for Them from Birth to Death is based on interviews and observations conducted in the field over three years in Cuba. The book challenges assumptions about the health of poor populati Download Caring for Them from Birth to Death for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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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
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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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