Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ablard, Jonathan D.

Titel

Cold War and Healthcare - Peripheral Nerve: Health and Medicine in Cold War Latin America. Edited by Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Raúl Necochea López. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020. Pp. 376. $29.95 paper

Ist Teil von

• The Americas, 2022, Vol.79 (1), p.167-168

Ort / Verlag

Berkeley: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Raúl Necochea López have produced a well thought out book of essays that argues for a reevaluation of how Latin American medical and health professionals navigated the Cold War. [...]in the case of Cuban medical assistance to Nicaragua after the 1979 revolution, we see that that the program was riven with conflicts and tensions that belied the anticommunist propaganda emanating from Washington, DC. All of the authors take care to paint vivid pictures of the women and men who worked, often at great personal and professional risk, to reform public health and medicine.