Peripheral Nerve: Health and Medicine in Cold War Latin America (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781478009566)

Buenos Aires psychoanalysts resisting imperialism. Brazilian parasitologists embracing communism as an antidote to rural misery. Nicaraguan revolutionaries welcoming Cuban health cooperation. Chilean public health reformers gauging domestic approaches against their Soviet and Western counterparts. As explored in Peripheral Nerve, these and accompanying accounts problematize existing understandings of how the Cold War unfolded in Latin America generally and in the health and medical realms more specifically. Bringing together scholars from across the Americas, this volume chronicles the experiences of Latin American physicians, nurses, medical scientists, and reformers who interacted with dominant U.S. and European players and sought alternative channels of health and medical solidarity with the Soviet Union and via South-South cooperation. Throughout, Peripheral Nerve highlights how Latin American health professionals accepted, rejected, and adapted foreign involvement; manipulated the rivalry between the United States and the USSR; and forged local variants that they projected internationally. In so doing, this collection reveals the multivalent nature of Latin American health politics, offering a significant contribution to Cold War history.

Contributors. Cheasty Anderson, Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Katherine E. Bliss, Gilberto Hochman, Jennifer L. Lambe, Nicole Pacino, Carlos Henrique Assun鈬o Paiva, Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney, Ra伃 Necochea Lez, Marco A. Ramos, Gabriela Soto Laveaga

Author: Anne-Emanuelle Birn
ISBN-10: 147800956X
ISBN-13: 9781478009566
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/14/2020
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.80w x 0.80d