Cuban Cure - Reason and Resistance in Global Science

Zusammenfassung After Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, his second declaration, after socialism, was that Cuba would become a leader in international science. This book shows how Cuba came to compete with US pharmaceutical giants - despite a trade embargo and crippling national debt.

Product details

• Authors: S. M. Reid-Henry, Simon Reid-Henry, Reid-Henry S. M.
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2010
• EAN: 9780226709178
• ISBN: 978-0-226-70917-8
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, SCIENCE / History, Cuba, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba, History of Science, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, History of the Americas