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Radical Prescription

Kelly Urban
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      Extinguishing a public health threat is difficult under any condition, let alone during a sweeping national revolution. In this first comprehensive study of tuberculosis in modern Cuba, Kelly Urban analyzes the medical, social, and governmental responses to the highly contagious disease as the island was heading into and emerging from the Revolution of 1959, providing a window onto broad questions of citizens' rights, biomedicine and public health, and political change. Drawing on a diverse range of sources revealing the perspectives of those at the center of power and those on the margins, Urban finds that the Cuban republican state intervened to confront the tuberculosis problem only after coming under intense grassroots pressure. Cuban citizens forged an activist political subculture around tuberculosis, however, rejecting discourses that blamed the sick for their own illness. This loose coalition of sanatorium patients, tenement dwellers, black public intellectuals, labor organizers, and reform-minded physicians won entitlements to state health care and pressed for other social rights that influenced health. Their critiques of the state's politicized and inefficient tuberculosis program contributed to the declining legitimacy of the Batista government, helping to spur the Revolution and an innovative restructuring of the public health system.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Kelly Urban EAN: 9781469673073 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 235 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: The University of North Carolina Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2023-05-02 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba, MEDICAL / History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues WIDTH: 155 cm SPINE:

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      Cuba, c 1950 to c 1959, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Medical sociology, History of medicine, History of the Americas

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      Kelly Urban is assistant professor of history at the University of South Alabama.
      Extinguishing a public health threat is difficult under any condition, let alone during a sweeping national revolution. In this first comprehensive study of tuberculosis in modern Cuba, Kelly Urban analyzes the medical, social, and governmental responses to the highly contagious disease as the island was heading into and emerging from the Revolution of 1959, providing a window onto broad questions of citizens' rights, biomedicine and public health, and political change. Drawing on a diverse range of sources revealing the perspectives of those at the center of power and those on the margins, Urban finds that the Cuban republican state intervened to confront the tuberculosis problem only after coming under intense grassroots pressure. Cuban citizens forged an activist political subculture around tuberculosis, however, rejecting discourses that blamed the sick for their own illness. This loose coalition of sanatorium patients, tenement dwellers, black public intellectuals, labor organizers, and reform-minded physicians won entitlements to state health care and pressed for other social rights that influenced health. Their critiques of the state's politicized and inefficient tuberculosis program contributed to the declining legitimacy of the Batista government, helping to spur the Revolution and an innovative restructuring of the public health system.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Kelly Urban EAN: 9781469673073 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 235 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: The University of North Carolina Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2023-05-02 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba, MEDICAL / History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues WIDTH: 155 cm SPINE:

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      Cuba, c 1950 to c 1959, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Medical sociology, History of medicine, History of the Americas

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      Kelly Urban is assistant professor of history at the University of South Alabama.

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