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Health Travels is the first collection of its kind to map the recent history of the Cuban healthcare system in rich ethnographic detail. This collection of essays challenges static and binary discourses regarding the healthcare system, bringing together contributions that paint a picture of the nuanced and dynamic intricacies of Cuban health(care) as it is represented and experienced both on the island and around the world. In each instance, papers address macro-forces – national policies and global strategies – as well as micro-practices that at times counter, and at other times support, state-level programs. Exploring the praxis at the juncture of daily bodily practices and global representations this collection highlights how the Cuban state is instantiated in different contexts and for various purposes. Illuminating the complexity of the divide between the state and el pueblo, contributors to this volume highlight contradictions in daily living and the “success” of the Cuban health care system.

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  1. Half Title Page, Publication Information, Title Page, Copyright
  2. pp. i-iv
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  1. Table of Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. p. vii
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. viii-x
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  1. Introduction
  2. Nancy J. Burke
  3. pp. 1-20
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  1. Section I: History, Affect, and Materiality: Public Health Campaigns and Food Insecurity
  1. 1: The Biocommunicable State
  2. Charles Briggs
  3. pp. 21-53
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  1. 2: Disconnecting the Mind and Essentialized Fare
  2. Hanna Garth
  3. pp. 54-84
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  1. 3: Eating in Cuban
  2. Susannah Rodriguez Drissi
  3. pp. 85-102
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  1. Section II: Social Accountability and “the Gift”: Internationalism and Cuban Medical Diplomacy
  1. 4: Fifty Years of Cuba's Medical Diplomacy
  2. Julie M. Feinsilver
  3. pp. 103-128
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  1. 5: Fueling la Revolucion
  2. P. Sean Brotherton
  3. pp. 129-153
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  1. 6: Transformative Medical Education and the Making of New Clinical Subjectivities Through Cuban-Bolivian Medical Diplomacy
  2. Alissa Bernstein
  3. pp. 154-177
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  1. 7: Cuban Internacionalistas, Sports, and the Health of the ‘Socialist Body' in Cuba and Africa
  2. Ayesha Anne Nibbe
  3. pp. 178-202
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  1. Section III: Global, Local, and Personal: Biomedical Practices and Interpretations
  1. 8: Conceiving Statistics
  2. Elise Andaya
  3. pp. 203-229
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  1. 9: Family Medicine, ‘La Herencia,' and the Breast Cancer
  2. Sahra Gibbon
  3. pp. 230-254
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  1. 10: Masculinity and Sexuality in Cuba
  2. Julio Cesar Gonzalez Pages
  3. pp. 255-267
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 268-279
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