Envisioning Cuba
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Envisioning Cuba

Citizenship and the Politics of Tuberculosis in Twentieth-Century Cuba

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Envisioning Cuba

Citizenship and the Politics of Tuberculosis in Twentieth-Century Cuba

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Extinguishing a public health threat is difficult under any condition, let alone during a sweeping national revolution. In this first comprehensive study of tuberculosis in modern Cuba, Kelly Urban analyzes the medical, social, and governmental responses to the highly contagious disease as the island was heading into and emerging from the Revolution of 1959, providing a window onto broad questions of citizens' rights, biomedicine and public health, and political change. Drawing on a diverse range of sources revealing the perspectives of those at the center of power and those on the margins, Urban finds that the Cuban republican state intervened to confront the tuberculosis problem only after coming under intense grassroots pressure. Cuban citizens forged an activist political subculture around tuberculosis, rejecting discourses that blamed the sick for their own illness. This loose coalition of sanatorium patients, tenement dwellers, black public intellectuals, labor organizers, and reform-minded physicians won entitlements to state health care and pressed for other social rights that influenced health. Their critiques of the state's politicized and inefficient tuberculosis program contributed to the declining legitimacy of the Batista government, helping to spur the Revolution and an innovative restructuring of the public health system.

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Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9781469673097
Topic
Historia
Subtopic
Historia de Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction. Politicosis: Tuberculosis in/as Cuban History
  10. Chapter One. The Sick Republic: Forging Health Rights in an Era of Revolution
  11. Chapter Two. Tuberculosis as Statecraft: Fulgencio Batista and the National Tuberculosis Council
  12. Chapter Three. Striking for Streptomycin: Grassroots Health Activism under the Auténticos
  13. Chapter Four. A Medical Monument: The General Batista Sanatorium
  14. Chapter Five. A Shuttered Laboratory: Tuberculosis Policy Experiments in the Early Revolution
  15. Chapter Six. Therapeutic Revolution: The Boundaries of Health Citizenship under Socialism
  16. Conclusion. The Battleground of Health: From the Special Period to COVID-19
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index