Description: "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"--
Brief description: Daniel A. Rodríguez is assistant professor of history at Brown University.
Review Quotes: "Rodríguez deftly weaves multiple scales of analysis--from the microbiological to the ideological to the economic--into his narrative. . . . He is a skillful writer, crafting a story with crisp prose and vivid detail, without sacrificing sophisticated argumentation and empirical depth."--NACLA Report on the Americas