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

• Autore: Brouwer Steve <1947->
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Monthly Review Press, c2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.109-7291
• Soggetto topico: Community health services - Venezuela; Community health services - Cuba; Medical education - Venezuela; Medical education - Cuba
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Revolutionary doctors
• ISBN: 1-58367-269-9; 1-58367-268-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823028503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II