Table of Contents for Where No Doctor Has Gone Before: Cuba's Place in the Global Health Landscape , by Robert Huish Preface Acknowledgements List of Acronyms A Note on Sources 1. Against the Garden Path That Justifies Health Inequity: Making the Case for Health Care as a Human Right 2. Sewing the Seeds of Health as a Right: The Origins of Health Care in Cuba 3. Growing Alternatives through Foreign Policy: Foreign Policy and Perspectives on International Health 4. The New Doctor Blooms: The Ethics of Medical Education 5. The Blossom of Cooperation: Cuban Medical Internationalism through ELAM in Ecuador 6. The Fruit of Solidarity: How to Maintain Hope for Global Health Notes References Index
Robert Huish is an assistant professor at Dalhousie University in the Department of International Development Studies. He has published widely on how development strategies, notably through health care and sport education programs in Cuba, have worked to transform conditions of poverty and sub-development throughout the global South. He teaches courses on global health, poverty and human rights, and pedagogies of activism for development.
``Robert Huish's Where No Doctor Has Gone Before: Cuba's Place in
the Global Health Landscape is a powerful broadside against the
enormous international inequities in access to health care, not
just ignored but furthered by wealthy countries.... It is an
astonishing idea that a country with the population of Ontario and
an economy less than one sixth of Ontario's should provide such an
outsized share of all international medical aid. The idea gets as
little attention as it does largely because of the influence of the
Cuban exile community in the swing state of Florida, and the
consequent debt of all recent American presidents, hawks and doves,
to the Florida voter. Hence the never-ending embargo.... [T]he
central point of this fine work is crucially important: in a time
of unprecedented disparity in global health outcomes, and while the
International Monetary Fund insists on curtailing public health
spending as one of the first steps in its oft-prescribed austerity
measures, it is in the interest of countries that can help to help.
The people who see this the clearest, are inevitably, the ones who
are closest to that place of needing help. As it is with countries,
so it is with individuals.'' -- Kevin Patterson -- Literary Review
of Canada, June 2013, 201307
``A strong addition to health care politics collections, much
recommended.'' -- Midwest Book Review, March 2013, 201304
``This excellent book gives us an immediate view and understanding
of Cuba's commitment to and participation in medical
internationalism. This small country has thousands of doctors
around the world committed to the provision of health care. Its
School of Latin American Medicine, opened in 1999, has taught
medicine tuition-free to students from over 116 countries and
graduated more than 12,000. Today, most of those graduates are back
in their home countries working with the poor, often in areas that
had seldom seen doctors. This is an endeavor, in short, from which
even the U.S. might learn from Cuba's example.'' -- Wayne S. Smith,
Senior Fellow, Center for International Policy and Adjunct
Professor, Johns Hopkins University -- 201304
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