Peripheral Nerve
Health and Medicine in Cold War Latin America
1st Edition
Published on 24. July 2020
376 pages
978-1-4780-1222-1 (ISBN)
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The contributors to this volume reframe the history of the Cold War by focusing on how Latin America used the rivalry between superpowers to create alternative sociomedical pathways.
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Anne-Emanuelle Birn | Raul Necochea Lopez
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Health and Medicine in Cold War Latin America
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Anne-Emanuelle Birn | Raul Necochea Lopez
Peripheral Nerve
Health and Medicine in Cold War Latin America
Book
08/2020
Duke University Press
€154.50
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Anne-Emanuelle Birn is Professor of Critical Development Studies and Global Health at the University of Toronto.
Raúl Necochea López is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Raúl Necochea López is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Content
Foreword / Gilbert M. Joseph ix
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction. Alternative Destinies and Solidarities for Health and Medicine in Latin American before and during the Cold War / Anne-Emanuelle Birn 1
Part I. Leftist Affinities and U.S. Suspicions
1. Under Surveillance: Public Health, the FBI, and Exile in Cold War Mexico / Katherine E. Bliss 31
2. National Politics and Scientific Pursuits: Medical Education and the Strategic Value of Science in Postrevolutionary Bolivia / Nicole L. Pacino 55
3. Cold War Mexico in a Time of "Wonder Drugs" / Gabriela Soto Laveaga 86
Part II. Health Experts/Expertise and Contested Ideologies
4. The Puerto Rico Family Life Study and the Cold War Politics of Fertility Studies / Raúl Necochea López 109
5. Parasitology and Communism: Public Health and Politics in Samuel Barnsley Pessoa's Brazil / Gilberto Hochman and Carlos Henrique Assunção Paiva 132
6. Revolutionizing Cuban Psychiatry: The Freud Wars, 1955-1970 / Jennifer Lynn Lambe 158
Part III. Health Politics and Publics, with and without the Cold War
7. From Cold War Pressures to State Policy to People's Health: Social Medicine and Socialized Medical Care in Chile / Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney 187
8. "Psychotherapy of the Oppressed": Anti-Imperialism and Psychoanalysis in Cold War Buenos Aires / Marco Ramos 211
9. South-South Cooperation as a Cold War Tonic: Cuban Medical Diplomacy to Sandinista Nicaragua, 1979-1990 / Cheasty Anderson 241
Epilogue. A Lingering Cold (War)? Reflections for the Present and an Agenda for Further Research / Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Raúl Necochea López 267
Contributors 295
Bibliography 299
Index
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction. Alternative Destinies and Solidarities for Health and Medicine in Latin American before and during the Cold War / Anne-Emanuelle Birn 1
Part I. Leftist Affinities and U.S. Suspicions
1. Under Surveillance: Public Health, the FBI, and Exile in Cold War Mexico / Katherine E. Bliss 31
2. National Politics and Scientific Pursuits: Medical Education and the Strategic Value of Science in Postrevolutionary Bolivia / Nicole L. Pacino 55
3. Cold War Mexico in a Time of "Wonder Drugs" / Gabriela Soto Laveaga 86
Part II. Health Experts/Expertise and Contested Ideologies
4. The Puerto Rico Family Life Study and the Cold War Politics of Fertility Studies / Raúl Necochea López 109
5. Parasitology and Communism: Public Health and Politics in Samuel Barnsley Pessoa's Brazil / Gilberto Hochman and Carlos Henrique Assunção Paiva 132
6. Revolutionizing Cuban Psychiatry: The Freud Wars, 1955-1970 / Jennifer Lynn Lambe 158
Part III. Health Politics and Publics, with and without the Cold War
7. From Cold War Pressures to State Policy to People's Health: Social Medicine and Socialized Medical Care in Chile / Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney 187
8. "Psychotherapy of the Oppressed": Anti-Imperialism and Psychoanalysis in Cold War Buenos Aires / Marco Ramos 211
9. South-South Cooperation as a Cold War Tonic: Cuban Medical Diplomacy to Sandinista Nicaragua, 1979-1990 / Cheasty Anderson 241
Epilogue. A Lingering Cold (War)? Reflections for the Present and an Agenda for Further Research / Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Raúl Necochea López 267
Contributors 295
Bibliography 299
Index
