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Author Mas, Catherine, author.

Title Culture in the clinic : Miami and the making of modern medicine / Catherine Mas
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (319 p.)
Series Studies in social medicine
Studies in social medicine.
Contents Healing at the crossroads -- Passing the foreign: Cuban physicians, American medicine, and Cold War Miami -- Mapping shadows: medical anthropology and the making of the ethnic body -- Culture brokers and the political economy of culturally appropriate care -- Ritual crimes: moral panic and the medical incorporation of Hispanic America -- Between Harvard and Haiti: the crossroads of medical anthropology and global health -- Healthcare -- plus
Summary "After the 1959 Cuban Revolution, hundreds of thousands of Cuban refugees came to Miami. With this influx, the city's health-care system was overwhelmed not just by the number of patients but also by the differences in culture. Mainstream medicine was often inaccessible or inadequate to Miami's growing community of Latin American and Caribbean immigrants. Instead, many sought care from alternative, often unlicensed health practitioners. During the 1960s, a recently arrived Cuban feeling ill might have visited a local clínica, a quasi-legal storefront doctor's office, or a santero, a priest in the Afro-Cuban religion of Lukumí or Santería. Catherine Mas shows how immigrants reshaped American medicine while the clinic became a crucial site for navigating questions of wellness, citizenship, and culture"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version of record
Subject Community health services -- Florida -- Miami -- History -- 20th century
Clinics -- Florida -- Miami -- History -- 20th century
Medical care -- Florida -- Miami -- History -- 20th century
Cuban Americans -- Medicine -- Florida -- Miami -- History -- 20th century
Cuban Americans -- Health and hygiene -- Florida -- Miami -- History -- 20th century
Clinics
Community health services
Medical care
Social services & welfare, criminology.
Health and Wellbeing.
Florida -- Miami
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 146967100X
9781469671000