The contributors to this volume reframe the history of the Cold War by focusing on how Latin America used the rivalry between superpowers to create alternative sociomedical pathways.

Foreword / Gilbert M. Joseph  ix
Acknowledgments  xix
Introduction. Alternative Destinies and Solidarities for Health and Medicine in Latin American before and during the Cold War / Anne-Emanuelle Birn  1
Part I. Leftist Affinities and U.S. Suspicions
1. Under Surveillance: Public Health, the FBI, and Exile in Cold War Mexico / Katherine E. Bliss  31
2. National Politics and Scientific Pursuits: Medical Education and the Strategic Value of Science in Postrevolutionary Bolivia / Nicole L. Pacino  55
3. Cold War Mexico in a Time of "Wonder Drugs" / Gabriela Soto Laveaga  86
Part II. Health Experts/Expertise and Contested Ideologies
4. The Puerto Rico Family Life Study and the Cold War Politics of Fertility Studies / Raúl Necochea López  109
5. Parasitology and Communism: Public Health and Politics in Samuel Barnsley Pessoa's Brazil / Gilberto Hochman and Carlos Henrique Assunção Paiva 132
6. Revolutionizing Cuban Psychiatry: The Freud Wars, 1955–1970 / Jennifer Lynn Lambe  158
Part III. Health Politics and Publics, with and without the Cold War
7. From Cold War Pressures to State Policy to People's Health: Social Medicine and Socialized Medical Care in Chile / Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney  187
8. "Psychotherapy of the Oppressed": Anti-Imperialism and Psychoanalysis in Cold War Buenos Aires / Marco Ramos  211
9. South-South Cooperation as a Cold War Tonic: Cuban Medical Diplomacy to Sandinista Nicaragua, 1979–1990 / Cheasty Anderson  241
Epilogue. A Lingering Cold (War)? Reflections for the Present and an Agenda for Further Research / Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Raúl Necochea López  267
Contributors  295
Bibliography  299
Index

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