Description: "Drawing on vast source materials, and with an ambitious narrative scope that transcends national borders, Eric D. Carter offers the first comprehensive intellectual and political history of the social medicine movement in Latin America, from the early twentieth century to the present day"--
Brief description: Eric D. Carter is Edens Professor of Geography and Global Health at Macalester College.
Review Quotes: "A densely packed journey through the ideologies, personalities, politics and health systems which generated the category of social medicine. Teeming with essential references and covering nearly a century of Central and South American involvement in the field, Carter demonstrates how the idea of social medicine waxed and waned with the political forces of its day (welfare states, central planning, authoritarianism and neoliberal reform) while never losing sight of the charismatic individuals who brought its central precepts to life."--Social History of Medicine