The Right to Live in Health: Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana

Author/Contributor(s):	Rodriguez, Daniel A
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press
Date:	08/31/2020
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"Rodrâiguez describes how medicine and new public health projects infused republican Cuba's statecraft, powerfully shaping the lives of Havana's residents. He underscores how various stakeholders, including women and people of color, demanded robust government investment in quality medical care for all Cubans, a central national value that continues today. On a broader level, Rodrâiguez proposes that Latin America, at least as much as the United States and Europe, was an engine for the articulation of citizens' rights, including the right to health care, in the twentieth century"--