Healthcare without borders : understanding Cuban medical internationalism /
Over the course of the last five decades, Cuba has been a leading force in the developing world via medical internationalism, providing humanitarian aid and initiating programs for preventative care and medical training. In this book, John Kirk argues that Cuba's medical internationalism is one...
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
[2015]
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| Cyfres: | Contemporary Cuba.
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| Mynediad Ar-lein: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Tabl Cynhwysion:
- Introduction: setting the scene
- Origins and evolution: from "beggar's helper" to a "white-jacketed army"
- Elam, a school for all nations
- Dealing with the "handicapped" of ALBA: setting the balance right
- Operación milagro: bringing vision to millions
- Cuba's international disaster responses: from 1960s Chile to the 2005 Henry Reeve Brigade
- South-South cooperation in biotechnology: medicine for the masses
- The Cuba-Venezuela medical partnership: the Castro-Chávez dream lives on
- Cuba's role in Haiti: hurricanes, an earthquake, and cholera
- Cuba's medical internationalism in the South Pacific
- The children of Chernobyl: 25,000 treated
- Cuba's medical internationalism in El Salvador since Hurricane Ida
- Conclusion: no longer the world's best-kept secret.