Comrades in health : U.S. health internationalists, abroad and at home / / edited by Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Theodore M. Brown

• Pubblicazione: New Brunswick, New Jersey : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (368 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.1/0425
• Soggetto topico: World health - History - 20th century; World health - History - 21st century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BirnAnne-Emanuelle <1964-> BrownTheodore M. <1942->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The making of health internationalists / Theodore M. Brown and Anne-Emanuelle Birn -- The perils of unconstrained enthusiasm : John Kingsbury, Soviet public health, and 1930s America / Susan Gross Solomon -- American medical support for Spanish democracy, 1936,1938 / Walter J. Lear -- Medical Mccarthyism and the punishment of internationalists in the United States / Jane Pacht Brickman -- Contesting racism and innovating community health centers : approaches on two continents / H. Jack Geiger -- Barefoot in China, the Bronx, and beyond / Victor W. Sidel and Ruth Sidel -- Medical internationalism and the last epidemic / Bernard Lown -- Social medicine, at home and abroad / Howard Waitzkin -- Find the best people and support them / Paula Braveman Cooperantes, solidarity, and the fight for health in Mozambique / Stephen Gloyd, James Pfeiffer and Wendy Johnson -- From Harlem to Harare : lessons in how social movements and social policy change health / Mary Travis Bassett -- Brigadistas and revolutionaries : health and social justice in El Salvador / Michael Terry with Laura Turiano -- Health and human rights in Latin America : a lawyers experience with public health internationalism / Alicia Ey Yamin -- History, theory, and praxis in Pacific Islands health / Seiji Yamada -- Doctors for global health : applying liberation medicine and accompanying communities in their struggles for health and social justice / Lanny Smith, Jennifer Kasper, and Timothy Holtz -- Doctors across blockades : American medical students in Cuba / Razel Remen and Brea Bondi-Boyd -- Conclusion : across the generations: lessons from health internationalism / Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Theodore M. Brown.
• Sommario/riassunto: Since the early twentieth century, politically engaged and socially committed U.S. health professionals have worked in solidarity with progressive movements around the world. Often with roots in social medicine, political activism, and international socialism, these doctors, nurses, and other health workers became comrades who joined forces with people struggling for social justice, equity, and the right to health. Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Theodore M. Brown bring together a group of professionals and activists whose lives have been dedicated to health internationalism. By presenting a combination of historical accounts and first-hand reflections, this collection of essays aims to draw attention to the longstanding international activities of the American health left and the lessons they brought home. The involvement of these progressive U.S. health professionals is presented against the background of foreign and domestic policy, social movements, and global politics.
• Titolo autorizzato: Comrades in health
• ISBN: 0-8135-6122-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452809903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Critical issues in health and medicine.