Healthcare without Borders

Understanding Cuban Medical Internationalism
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8130-6105-4
Verlag: University Press of Florida

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 797 g

Reihe: Contemporary Cuba

Cuba has more medical personnel serving abroad - over 50,000 in 66 countries - than all of the G-7 countries combined and more than the World Health Organization. For the last five decades, they have been a leading force in the developing world, providing humanitarian aid (or “cooperation,” as Cuba’s communist government prefers) and initiating programs for preventative care and medical training.

In Healthcare without Borders, John Kirk examines the role of Cuban medical teams in disaster relief, biotechnology joint ventures, and in the Latin American School - the largest medical faculty in the world. He looks at their responses to various crises worldwide, including the 1960 earthquake in Chile, the Chernobyl disaster in the Ukraine, the earthquake that wracked Haiti in 2010 and the subsequent cholera outbreak, and the 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa.

Kirk issues an informative and enlightening corrective for what he describes as the tendency of the industrialized world’s media to ignore or underreport this phenomenon as one of the positive aspects of the ongoing Cuban revolution. In the process, he explores the philosophical underpinnings of human rights and access to medical care at the core of Cuba’s medical internationalism programs and partnerships.

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John M. Kirk is professor of Spanish and Latin American studies at Dalhousie University, Canada. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including Canada-Cuba Relations: The Other Good Neighbor Policy, Cuban Medical Internationalism: Origins, Evolution and Goals and Culture and the Cuban Revolution.