Brotherton Revolutionary Medicine

Health and the Body in Post-Soviet Cuba
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9514-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Experimental futures

An ethnography of post-Soviet Cubas health-care sector which reveals Cuba to be a pragmatic and contradictory state.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brotherton, P. Sean

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix
List of Tables xi
Prologue xiii
Preface. An Ethnography of Contradictions xv
Acknowledgments xxv
Introduction. Bodies in States of Crisis 1
Part I. Biopolitics in the Special Period 13
1. The Biopolitics of Health 15
2. Expanding Therapeutic Itineraries 35
Part II. Socialist Governmentality, Public Health, and Risk 55
3. Medicalized Subjectivities 57
4. Curing the Social Ills of Society 84
5. Preventive Strategies and Productive Bodies 111
Part III. We Have to Think Like Capitalists but Continue Being Socialists 145
6. Turismo y Salud, S.A.: The Rise of Socialist Entrepreneurs 147
7. My Doctor Keeps the Lights On 169
Conclusion. Bodies Entangled in History 182
Coda 191
Notes 193
Bibliography 219
Index 245

Über Autor(innen)

P. Sean Brotherton is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Yale University.