Healthcare without Borders
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Healthcare without Borders

Understanding Cuban Medical Internationalism

  1. 377 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Healthcare without Borders

Understanding Cuban Medical Internationalism

About this book

Cuba has more medical personnel serving abroad—over 50,000 in 66 countries—than all of the G-7 countries combined and more than the World Health Organization. For the last five decades, they have been a leading force in the developing world, providing humanitarian aid (or "cooperation," as Cuba's communist government prefers) and initiating programs for preventative care and medical training.

In Healthcare without Borders, John Kirk examines the role of Cuban medical teams in disaster relief, biotechnology joint ventures, and in the Latin American School—the largest medical faculty in the world. He looks at their responses to various crises worldwide, including the 1960 earthquake in Chile, the Chernobyl disaster in the Ukraine, the earthquake that wracked Haiti in 2010 and the subsequent cholera outbreak, and the 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa.

Kirk issues an informative and enlightening corrective for what he describes as the tendency of the industrialized world's media to ignore or underreport this phenomenon as one of the positive aspects of the Cuban revolutionary process. In the process, Kirk explores the philosophical underpinnings of human rights and access to medical care at the core of Cuba's medical internationalism programs and partnerships.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Healthcare without Borders
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Tables
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction: Setting the Scene
  10. 1. Origins and Evolution: From “Beggar’s Helper” to a “White-Jacketed Army”
  11. 2. ELAM, a School for All Nations
  12. 3. Dealing with the “Handicapped” of ALBA: Setting the Balance Right
  13. 4. OperaciĂłn Milagro: Bringing Vision to Millions
  14. 5. Cuba’s International Disaster Responses: From 1960s Chile to the 2005 Henry Reeve Brigade
  15. 6. South-South Cooperation in Biotechnology: Medicine for the Masses
  16. 7. The Cuba-Venezuela Medical Partnership: The Castro-ChĂĄvez Dream Lives On
  17. 8. Cuba’s Role in Haiti: Hurricanes, an Earthquake, and Cholera
  18. 9. Cuba’s Medical Internationalism in the South Pacific
  19. 10. The Children of Chernobyl: 25,000 Treated
  20. 11. Cuba’s Medical Internationalism in El Salvador since Hurricane Ida
  21. Conclusion: No Longer the World’s Best-Kept Secret
  22. Notes
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index