Caring for them from birth to death; the practice of community-based Cuban medicine

Caring for them from birth to death; the practice of community-based Cuban medicine.

Perez, Christina.

Lexington Books

2008

315 pages

$70.00

Hardcover

RA456

In the US, inequities in health care delivery are both obvious and devastating. Those who are sick generally cannot get jobs that will provide them with health care insurance, and those who get sick lose their jobs and therefore lose their health care. In contrast, the small nation of Cuba not only provides universal health care but structures the work of health care workers to reflect the goals of the ongoing socialist revolution. Perez (sociology, Dominican U.) defies current neoliberal thinking in her theories, methods and results, working from qualitative interviews and participant observation. She focuses on the community-based primary care system that provides comprehensive family medicine through activist professionals, proving that the poor can receive high quality care. Incidentally, she also exposes the flaws in materialist and consumerist medicine, in which the poor nearly always become the sick and poor.

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