Revolutionary Doctors: How Venezuela and Cuba Are Changing the World's Conception of Health Care

by Steve Brouwer

Book Overview

Revolutionary Doctors gives readers a first-hand account of Venezuela's innovative and inspiring program of community healthcare, designed to serve--and largely carried out by--the poor themselves. Drawing on long-term participant observations as well as in-depth research, Brouwer tells the story of Venezuela's Integral Community Medicine program, in which doctor-teachers move into the countryside and poor urban areas to recruit and train doctors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583672397
• ISBN13: 9781583672396
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Monthly Review Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"