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

Informationen zum Autor P. Sean Brotherton Klappentext P. Sean Brotherton is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Yale University. Zusammenfassung An ethnography of post-Soviet Cuba s health-care sector which reveals Cuba to be a pragmatic and contradictory state. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations ix List of Tables xi Prologue xiii Preface. An Ethnography of Contradictions xv Acknowledgments xxv Introduction. Bodies in States of Crisis 1 Part I. Biopolitics in the Special Period 13 1. The Biopolitics of Health 15 2. Expanding Therapeutic Itineraries 35 Part II. Socialist Governmentality, Public Health, and Risk 55 3. Medicalized Subjectivities 57 4. Curing the Social Ills of Society 84 5. Preventive Strategies and Productive Bodies 111 Part III. We Have to Think Like Capitalists but Continue Being Socialists 145 6. Turismo y Salud, S.A.: The Rise of Socialist Entrepreneurs 147 7. My Doctor Keeps the Lights On 169 Conclusion. Bodies Entangled in History 182 Coda 191 Notes 193 Bibliography 219 Index 245

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• Authors: P Sean Brotherton, P. Brotherton, P. Sean Brotherton, Pierre Sean Brotherton
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.03.2012
• EAN: 9780822352051
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5205-1
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Experimental Futures; Experimental Futures: Technolo; Experimental Futures; Experimental Futures: Technolo
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries