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Cuban Medical Internationalism: Origins, Evolution, and Goals (Studies of the Americas)

By John M. Kirk , H. Michael Erisman

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2009
ISBN
1403983720, 9781403983725
LCC
RA390.C9 K57 2009
Open Library ID
OL22528508M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1758145 bytes)
Series
Studies of the Americas
Edition
1
Pages
241\241
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

While public health is important for revolutionary Cuba, providing medical services to the developing world is also a priority: 38,000 medical staff are engaged abroad; the largest medical school in the world (ELAM) has an enrollment of over 8,000 students from the Third World; and since 2004 over 1.3 million in Latin America and the Caribbean have had their eyesight restored.  How has this small nation of 11.3 million people managed to save more lives in the developing world than all of the G-8 countries together? And what are its motives? This book, the result of four years of research in Cuba, provides an updated analysis of this extraordinary record.

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