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UNINA9910480534903321 |
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Autore |
Brouwer Steve <1947-> |
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Titolo |
Revolutionary doctors [[electronic resource] ] : how Venezuela and Cuba are changing the world's conception of health care / / by Steve Brouwer |
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New York, : Monthly Review Press, c2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-58367-269-9 |
1-58367-268-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Community health services - Venezuela |
Community health services - Cuba |
Medical education - Venezuela |
Medical education - Cuba |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Where Do Revolutionary Doctors Come From?""; ""2. Solidarity and Internationalism""; ""3. Creating Two, Three . . . One Hundred Thousand Che Guevaras""; ""4. Medicine in Revolutionary Cuba""; ""5. Barrio Adentro""; ""6. Witnessing Barrio Adentro in Action""; ""7. New Doctors for Venezuela""; ""8. Building Community Medicine on a Daily Basis""; ""9. Revolutionary Medicine in Conflict with the Past""; ""10. The Battle of Ideas and the Battle for Our America""; ""11. The War on Ideas: The U.S. Counterinsurgency Campaign"" |
""12. Practicing Medicine, Practicing Revolution""""Notes""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Revolutionary Doctors gives readers a first-hand account of Venezuela's innovative and inspiring program of community healthcare, designed to serve-and largely carried out by-the poor themselves. Drawing on long-term participant observations as well as in-depth research, Brouwer tells the story of Venezuela's Integral Community |
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Medicine program, in which doctor-teachers move into the countryside and poor urban areas to recruit and train doctors from among peasants and workers. Such programs were first developed in Cuba, and Cuban medical personnel play a key role in Venezuela today as advisor |
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UNINA9910695382803321 |
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Autore |
Kiska Wendy |
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Titolo |
The risk exposure of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation [[electronic resource]] |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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[Washington, D.C.] : , : Congress of the U.S., Congressional Budget Office, , [2005] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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ix, 30 pages : digital, PDF file |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Soggetti |
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Pension trust guaranty insurance - United States - Finance |
Defined benefit pension plans - United States - Finance |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from title screen (viewed on Mar. 30, 2006). |
"Wendy Kiska (CBO), Deborah Lucas (Northwestern University and the National Bureau of Economic Research), and Marvin Phaup (CBO) prepared the report"--Pref. |
"September 2005." |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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