Review
The Right to Live in Health: Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana
The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol.101(3), pp.556-557
08/01/2021
DOI: 10.1215/00182168-9052293
Abstract
Historians of Cuba have been prolific in documenting changes in the late nineteenth century and in the years around the 1959 Cuban Revolution, with the early republic—the years following the US occupation of 1898–1902—relegated, with a few exceptions, to a footnote of intellectual stagnation. But in The Right to Live in Health: Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana, Daniel A. Rodríguez shows how during this time Cuba was in fact at the forefront of medical and social advancements, alongside some of the most advanced democracies. This story of the Cuban-driven modernization of medicine and public health begins with a view into the lives of those who had been relocated by the Spanish to the concentration camps outside Cuba's large cities during the Cuban War of Independence. Rodríguez brings us details of the lives of reconcentrados that show how their struggles to survive...
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Right to Live in Health: Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana
- Creators
- Mariola Espinosa - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Review
- Publication Details
- The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol.101(3), pp.556-557
- DOI
- 10.1215/00182168-9052293
- ISSN
- 0018-2168
- eISSN
- 1527-1900
- Publisher
- Duke University Press, NC & IL; Durham
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/01/2021
- Academic Unit
- History; Interdisciplinary Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9984186754302771
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