CSSN-Medicine and Public Health in Latin America

Medicine and Public Health in Latin America

Author : Source : Cambridge University Press 2014-12-16

Cambridge University Press is going to release a new book Medicine and Public Health in Latin America on December 31. The book was written by Marcos Cueto,a professor at Casa de Oswaldo Cruz,and Fiocruz, in Rio de JaneiroUniversity of Windsor, Ontario, and associate professor of History and Canada Research Chair in History of International Health at the University of Windsor, Ontario.

Despite several studies on the social, cultural, and political histories of medicine and of public health in different parts of Latin America and the Caribbean, local and national focuses still predominate, and there are few panoramic studies that analyze the overarching tendencies in the development of health in the region. This comprehensive book summarizes the social history of medicine, medical education, and public health in Latin America and places it in dialogue with the international historiographical currents in medicine and health. Ultimately, this text provides a clear, broad, and provocative synthesis of the history of Latin American medical developments while illuminating the recent challenges of global health in the region and other developing countries.

Editor: Du Mei