Radical Prescription: Citizenship and the Politics of Tuberculosis in Twentieth-

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Extinguishing a public health threat is difficult under any condition, let alone during a national revolution. In this first comprehensive study of tuberculosis in Cuba, Kelly Urban analyses the medical, social, and governmental responses to the highly contagious disease as the island was heading into and emerging from the Revolution of 1959.

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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, however, 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.

Author Biography

Kelly Urban is assistant professor of history at the University of South Alabama.

Review

Well-researched . . . This focus on Cuban public health policy and the interaction between the governments and citizens, and not just on tuberculosis, makes Radical Prescription of interest both to historians of medicine and generalists interested in Latin American history."—H-Sci-Med-Tech

Details ISBN1469673088 Author Kelly Urban Short Title Radical Prescription Language English Year 2023 ISBN-10 1469673088 ISBN-13 9781469673080 Subtitle Citizenship and the Politics of Tuberculosis in Twentieth-Century Cuba Series Envisioning Cuba Format Paperback Publication Date 2023-05-02 Publisher The University of North Carolina Press Imprint The University of North Carolina Press Place of Publication Chapel Hill Country of Publication United States Illustrations 12 halftones, 1 map, 3 graphs 12 AU Release Date 2023-05-02 NZ Release Date 2023-05-02 US Release Date 2023-05-02 UK Release Date 2023-05-02 Pages 252 DEWEY 362.19699500972910904 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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