The Right to Live in Health
Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana
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The Right to Live in Health
Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana
About This Book
Daniel A. Rodriguez's history of a newly independent Cuba shaking off the U.S. occupation focuses on the intersection of public health and politics in Havana. While medical policies were often used to further American colonial power, in Cuba, Rodriguez argues, they evolved into important expressions of anticolonial nationalism as Cuba struggled to establish itself as a modern state. A younger generation of Cuban medical reformers, including physicians, patients, and officials, imagined disease as a kind of remnant of colonial rule. These new medical nationalists, as Rodriguez calls them, looked to medical science to guide Cuba toward what they envisioned as a healthy and independent future. Rodriguez 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, Rodriguez 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.
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ABBREVIATIONS
ANC | Archivo Nacional de Cuba, La Habana, Havana, Cuba |
AH | Audencia de la Habana |
CPRC | Citizens’ Permanent Relief Committee Records |
FE | Fondo Especial |
HFP | Homer Folks Papers, Columbia University Archives, New York, N.Y. |
HSP | Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia |
LOC | Library of Congress, Manuscripts Division, Washington, D.C. |
MGC | Records of the Military Government of Cuba, 1898–1903 |
RA | Registro de Asociaciones |
SP | Secretaría de la Presidencia |
USNA | National Archives of the United States of America, College Park, Md. |
UVA-SP | Library of the University of Virginia, Special Collections Library, Papers of Jefferson Randolph Kean |
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. The Meanings of Health in Postindependence Havana
- One. A Nation of Spectres: Reconcentration, U.S. Occupation, and the Modernization of the Public Health State
- Two. A Blessed Formula for Progress: Medical Nationalism, U.S. Empire, and the Development of Public Health, 1899–1909
- Three. Salus Populi Suprema Lex: Medical Modernity, Neocolonialism, and the 1914 Bubonic Plague Outbreak
- Four. The Dangers That Surround the Child: Gendered Poverty and the Fight against Infant Mortality
- Five. With All, and for the Good of All: Race, Poverty, and Tuberculosis
- Six. To Fight These Powerful Trusts and Free the Medical Profession: Spanish Mutualism, Medicine, and Revolution, 1925–1935
- Conclusion. The Right to Live in Health in Postcolonial Havana
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index