Comrades in health : : U.S. health internationalists, abroad and at home / / edited by Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Theodore M. Brown.

• TeilnehmendeR: Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, 1964-; Brown, Theodore M., 1942-
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, New Jersey : : Rutgers University Press,, [2013]; 2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Critical issues in health and medicine
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 pages) :; illustrations.

Table of Contents

The making of health internationalists / Theodore M. Brown and Anne-Emanuelle Birn -- The perils of unconstrained enthusiasm : John Kingsbury, Soviet public health, and 1930s America / Susan Gross Solomon -- American medical support for Spanish democracy, 1936,1938 / Walter J. Lear -- Medical Mccarthyism and the punishment of internationalists in the United States / Jane Pacht Brickman -- Contesting racism and innovating community health centers : approaches on two continents / H. Jack Geiger -- Barefoot in China, the Bronx, and beyond / Victor W. Sidel and Ruth Sidel -- Medical internationalism and the last epidemic / Bernard Lown -- Social medicine, at home and abroad / Howard Waitzkin -- Find the best people and support them / Paula Braveman Cooperantes, solidarity, and the fight for health in Mozambique / Stephen Gloyd, James Pfeiffer and Wendy Johnson -- From Harlem to Harare : lessons in how social movements and social policy change health / Mary Travis Bassett -- Brigadistas and revolutionaries : health and social justice in El Salvador / Michael Terry with Laura Turiano -- Health and human rights in Latin America : a lawyers experience with public health internationalism / Alicia Ey Yamin -- History, theory, and praxis in Pacific Islands health / Seiji Yamada -- Doctors for global health : applying liberation medicine and accompanying communities in their struggles for health and social justice / Lanny Smith, Jennifer Kasper, and Timothy Holtz -- Doctors across blockades : American medical students in Cuba / Razel Remen and Brea Bondi-Boyd -- Conclusion : across the generations: lessons from health internationalism / Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Theodore M. Brown.