{"product_id":"che-and-medicine-ernesto-che-guevara-9781644214251","title":"Che and Medicine: Ernesto Guevara on the Social Role of Doctors","description":"\u003cb\u003eChe Guevara's passion for public health contributed to his a legacy of social medicine in Latin America, and this book explores and reveals his thoughts on the role of a doctor. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFeatures an introduction by Aleida Guevara March, MD, a Cuban physician who is the eldest daughter of four children born to Ernesto \"Che\" Guevara and his second wife, Aleida March \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBefore Ernesto Che Guevara became \"Che,\" before he traveled Latin America, before he joined Fidel in Cuba, he was a medical student. In 1956 he wrote to his mother before leaving to go and join the guerilla expedition to Cuba: \"My path seems to be slowly but surely diverging from that of clinical medicine, but not so far that I have lost my nostalgia for hospitals. What I told you about the professorship in physiology was a lie, but not a big one. It was a lie because I never planned to accept it, but the offer was real and there was a strong possibility that they were going to give it to me, as I had an interview and everything. Anyway, that's all history. Saint Carlos [Karl Marx] has made a new recruit.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe had started a book on the role of the doctor in Latin America, a work he fully intended to continue writing. It remained incomplete at the time of his death in Bolivia at the age of thirty-nine, just eleven years later.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ernesto Che Guevara\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1644214253\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781644214251\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Seven Stories Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/09\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Ernesto Che Guevara","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46747767701759,"sku":"9781644214251","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_887a0de3-6df0-4ffb-a91a-7b5783a0e143.jpg?v=1743584677","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/che-and-medicine-ernesto-che-guevara-9781644214251","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}