Peripheral Nerve: Health and Medicine in Cold War Latin America
Anne-Emanuelle Birn, "Peripheral Nerve: Health and Medicine in Cold War Latin America "
English | ISBN: 1478008687 | 2020 | 376 pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 1478008687 | 2020 | 376 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Buenos Aires psychoanalysts resisting imperialism. Brazilian parasitologists embracing communism as an antidote to rural misery. Nicaraguan revolutionaries welcoming Cuban health cooperation. Chilean public health reformers gauging domestic approaches against their Soviet and Western counterparts. As explored in Peripheral Nerve, these and accompanying accounts problematize existing understandings of how the Cold War unfolded in Latin America generally and in the health and medical realms more specifically. Bringing together scholars from across the Americas, this volume chronicles the experiences of Latin American physicians, nurses, medical scientists, and reformers who interacted with dominant U.S. and European players and sought alternative channels of health and medical solidarity with the Soviet Union and via South-South cooperation. Throughout,
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