Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The pursuit of health equity -- Chapter One. Roots: the origins of social medicine in Latin America -- Chapter Two. Networks: how social medicine traveled internationally, 1920s-1940s -- Chapter Three. Politics: social medicine and health reform in Chile -- Chapter Four. Fragmentation: the politics of health and the welfare state in Argentina -- Chapter Five. Hiatus: modernization and the fading of social medicine in the early Cold War -- Chapter Six. Revival: the second ave of Latin American social medicine -- Chapter Seven. Resistance: social medicine and its impact, 1990s-2000s -- Conclusion: Making sense of Latin American social medicine -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
"Drawing on vast source materials, and with an ambitious narrative scope that transcends national borders, Eric D. Carter offers the first comprehensive intellectual and political history of the social medicine movement in Latin America, from the early twentieth century to the present day"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
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