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Cross-Continental Care: Us And Cuban Medical Internationalism In Bolivia, Madeleine Blain
Cross-Continental Care: Us And Cuban Medical Internationalism In Bolivia, Madeleine Blain
Latin American Studies Honors Projects
How can something as commonplace as going to the doctor influence international politics? In Bolivia, medicine is bound in politics. The political structure of a country both influences the approach to health care, and determines how that approach is most effectively implemented internationally. Building upon a framework of conceptual difference between capitalist and socialist health systems, this paper examines “effective” models of US and Cuban international health care on both a political and individual level. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in a Bolivian hospital, interviews with doctors working internationally, and current literature, I seek to discern what defines “effective” international health …