Peripheral Nerve – Health and Medicine in Cold War Latin America Birn Necochea

Peripheral NerveHealth and Medicine in Cold War Latin America\nAuthor(s): Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Ral Necochea Lpez\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Duke University Press, United States\nImprint: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9781478008682, 978-1478008682\nSynopsis\nBuenos 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 [url] and European players ana