Radical prescription citizenship and the politics of tuberculosis in twentieth-century Cuba / Kelly Urban.

Author/creator Urban, Kelly
Format Electronic
Publication InfoChapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
Descriptionxiii, 236 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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SeriesEnvisioning Cuba
Envisioning Cuba.
Contents Introduction. Politicosis: Tuberculosis in/as Cuban History -- The Sick Republic: Forging Health Rights in an Era of Revolution -- Tuberculosis as Statecraft: Fulgencio Batista and the National Tuberculosis Council -- Striking for Streptomycin: Grassroots Health Activism under the Aut©♭nticos -- A Medical Monument: The General Batista Sanatorium -- A Shuttered Laboratory: Tuberculosis Policy Shifts in the Early Revolution -- Therapeutic Revolution: The Boundaries of Health Citizenship under Socialism -- Conclusion. The Battleground of Health: From the Special Period to COVID-19.
Abstract "In this first comprehensive study of tuberculosis in modern Cuba, Kelly Urban analyzes the medical, social, and governmental responses to the highly contagious disease, particularly as the island was heading into and emerging from the 1959 revolution. Tuberculosis--one of the top three causes of death in Cuba at the beginning of the twentieth century--provides a window onto broad questions of citizens' rights, biomedicine and public health, and political change"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 211-225) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2022033504
ISBN9781469673073 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9781469673080 (paperback : alk. paper)
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