UID:
almafu_9959674035602883
Format:
1 online resource (376 p.)
ISBN:
9781478012221
Series Statement:
American encounters/global interactions
Content:
Buenos Aires psychoanalysts resisting imperialism. Brazilian parasitologists embracing communism as an antidote to rural misery. Nicaraguan revolutionaries welcoming Cuban health cooperation. Chilean public health reformers gauging domestic approaches against Soviet and Western counterparts. These and accompanying accounts—as explored in Peripheral Nerve—problematize existing understandings of how the Cold War unfolded in Latin America, generally and in health and medical realms. Bringing together scholars from across the Americas, this volume chronicles the experiences of Latin American physicians, nurses, medical scientists, and reformers who interacted with dominant US and European players and sought alternative channels of health and medical solidarity with the Soviet Union and via South-South cooperation. Throughout, Peripheral Nerve highlights how Latin American health professionals accepted, rejected, and adapted foreign involvement; manipulated the rivalry between the United States and the USSR; and forged local variants that they projected internationally. In so doing, this collection reveals the multivalent nature of Latin American health politics, offering a significant contribution to Cold War history.Contributors. Cheasty Anderson, Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Katherine E. Bliss, Gilberto Hochman, Jennifer L. Lambe, Nicole Pacino, Carlos Henrique Assunção Paiva, Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney, Raúl Necochea López, Marco A. Ramos, Gabriela Soto Laveaga
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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FOREWORD --
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --
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INTRODUCTION. Alternative Destinies and Solidarities for Health and Medicine in Latin America before and during the Cold War --
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1 Under Surveillance: Public Health, the FBI, and Exile in Cold War Mexico --
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2 National Politics and Scientific Pursuits: Medical Education and the Strategic Value of Science in Postrevolutionary Bolivia --
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3 Cold War Mexico in a Time of “Wonder Drugs” --
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4 The Puerto Rico Family Life Study and the Cold War Politics of Fertility Surveys --
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5 Parasitology and Communism: Public Health and Politics in Samuel Barnsley Pessoa’s Brazil --
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6 Revolutionizing Cuban Psychiatry: The Freud Wars, 1955–1970 --
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7 From Cold War Pressures to State Policy to People’s Health: Social Medicine and Socialized Medical Care in Chile --
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8 “Psychotherapy of the Oppressed”: Anti-Imperialism and Psychoanalysis in Cold War Buenos Aires --
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9 South–South Cooperation as a Cold War Tonic: Cuban Medical Diplomacy to Sandinista Nicaragua, 1979–1990 --
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EPILOGUE. A Lingering Cold (War)? Reflections for the Present and an Agenda for Further Research --
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BIBLIOGRAPHY --
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CONTRIBUTORS --
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INDEX
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781478012221
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478012221
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781478012221
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478012221
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781478012221
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