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<div style="text-align:center"><b>How Cuba and Venezuela
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<div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:21px"><font color="#003300"><b>Steve Brouwer</b></font></span></div>
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by the Health Roots Student Group at the Harvard School of
Public Health<br><br><br></b><div><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(102,0,0)">Tuesday, April 10th, 12-1pm</span></b><br style="background-color:rgb(102,0,0)"><br></div><div class="im">
<div>Boston University School of Medicine<br><br></div></div><div>Room L201/203<br><br></div><div class="im"><div>72 E Concord St, Boston, MA 02118</div><div><br>
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<div style="font-size:14px"><font style="line-height:21px;text-align:left;color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size:14px"></span></font><font style="line-height:21px;text-align:left;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:14px"><b>About: </b></span></font>Drawing
on long-term participant observations as well as in-depth
research, author and journalist <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);background-image:initial">Steve</span> Brouwer
tells the story of the innovative and inspirational health
care programs pioneered in Cuba and being adapted to the needs
of Venezuela today. Unlike the for-profit system of health
care in the United States, the Cuban and Venezuelan models aim
to provide free care for the entire population, particularly
in poor rural and urban areas. For nearly a decade, thousands
of Cuban medical personnel have focused on delivering primary,
secondary, and preventive care while at the same time training
the Venezuelan doctors who will one day replace them. These
new physicians are receiving a thorough medical education
while continuing to live in and serve their own communities;
many of them hope to one day join the ranks of Cuba’s
international medical brigades that are spreading
revolutionary approaches to health care in many parts of the
world. These models are not without their challenges, however,
and Brouwer gives a nuanced account of how Venezuela and Cuba
are fending off capitalist and imperialist influences that are
openly hostile to any alternatives to profit-driven,
market-based health care.<br><br><strong style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;outline-color:initial;background-image:initial;background-color:rgb(239,241,241);border-top-style:none;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:'Trebuchet MS','Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica;line-height:22px"><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;outline-color:initial;font-size:16px;background-image:url('');border-top-style:none;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;font-weight:normal;line-height:20px;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat">
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What a terrific book! I have been researching Cuban medical internationalism for several years, and found <span class="il">Steve</span>
Brouwer’s book an excellent, insightful first-person account of how
Cuban medical cooperation (and not aid!) is changing the face of the
developing world.</p>
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—John Kirk, Professor of Latin American Studies, Dalhousie University, Canada; author, <em style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;outline-color:initial;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;border-top-style:none;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;border-width:initial;border-color:initial">Cuban Medical Internationalism: Origins, Evolution, and Goals</em></p>
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The Cuban medical education model, so eloquently described in this book,
has not merely transformed health care in much of Central and South
America. It has shown doctors and medical students who work in the
unjust and dysfunctional U.S. health care system that another world is
possible.</p>
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—Steffie Woolhandler, MD, MPH; professor of public health, CUNY; visiting professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School</p><p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;outline-color:initial;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;border-top-style:none;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;line-height:1.4em">
Venezuela and Cuba clearly show that the basic human right of access to
medical and health care in time of need is not dependent on the level of
economic development. Venezuela and Cuba are not rich countries yet,
and in spite of this, health care reaches the majority of their
populations. They should be considered points of reference for poor
countries that want to break with the underdevelopment of health. This
book is a rigorous and balanced account of how they did it.</p>
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—Vicente Navarro, MD, PhD; professor of health policy, The Bloomberg
School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University; editor-in-chief, <em style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;outline-color:initial;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;border-top-style:none;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;border-width:initial;border-color:initial">International Journal of Health Services</em></p>
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<em style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;outline-color:initial;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;border-top-style:none;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;font-style:normal;font-weight:700">Revolutionary Doctors</em> tells
the story of Cuba’s extraordinary medical personnel who leave their
homes and families to support radical struggles for health care abroad.
And it shows how this struggle is taken up in places like Venezuela,
where poor communities are organizing to provide health care from the
ground up. This is a story that deserves to be known.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;outline-color:initial;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;border-top-style:none;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;font-style:normal;font-weight:700;text-align:right;line-height:1.4em">
—Sujatha Fernandes, assistant professor of sociology, Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center; author,<em style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;outline-color:initial;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;border-top-style:none;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;border-width:initial;border-color:initial">Who Can Stop the Drums? Urban Social Movements in Chávez’s Venezuela</em></p>
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<span class="il">Steve</span> Brouwer is one of the nation’s best front-line reporters from the ongoing class war.</p><p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;outline-color:initial;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;border-top-style:none;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;font-style:normal;font-weight:700;text-align:right;line-height:1.4em">
—Barbara Ehrenreich, author, <em style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;outline-color:initial;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;border-top-style:none;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;border-width:initial;border-color:initial">Nickel and Dimed</em></p>
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