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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823028503321

Autore

Brouwer Steve <1947->

Titolo

Revolutionary doctors : how Venezuela and Cuba are changing the world's conception of health care / / by Steve Brouwer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Monthly Review Press, c2011

ISBN

1-58367-269-9

1-58367-268-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Disciplina

362.109-7291

Soggetti

Community health services - Venezuela

Community health services - Cuba

Medical education - Venezuela

Medical education - Cuba

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""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""

Sommario/riassunto

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 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