Marcos Cueto, Steven Palmer

Medicine and Public Health in Latin America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a clear, broad, and provocative synthesis of the history of Latin American medicine.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9781107633018
• ISBN-10: 110763301X
• Artikelnr.: 41217072

Autorenporträt

Marcos Cueto is a professor at Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, in Rio de Janeiro; co-editor of the journal História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinho; and a researcher at Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Lima, where he served as director-general from 2009 to 2011.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Indigenous medicine, official health, and medical pluralism
2. National medicines and sanitarian states
3. Making national and international health
4. Medical innovation in the twentieth century
5. Primary health care, neoliberal response, and global health in Latin America
6. Conclusion.