Description |
1 online resource (319 p.) |
Series |
Studies in social medicine |
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Studies in social medicine.
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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
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Clinics -- Florida -- Miami -- History -- 20th century
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Medical care -- Florida -- Miami -- History -- 20th century
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Cuban Americans -- Medicine -- Florida -- Miami -- History -- 20th century
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Cuban Americans -- Health and hygiene -- Florida -- Miami -- History -- 20th century
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Clinics
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Community health services
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Medical care
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Social services & welfare, criminology.
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Health and Wellbeing.
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Florida -- Miami
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
146967100X |
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9781469671000 |
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