Revolutionary Doctors: How Venezuela and Cuba Are Changing the World’s Conception of Health Care
Steve Brouwer, author of a just-released study, will speak about his new work in the conference room at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs on Friday, October 7 at 11:00 am, in Washington D.C., at 1250 Connecticut Ave. NW, approximately one block from Dupont Circle, on the Red Line. In his talk, he will discuss progressive solutions to health care in Venezuela and Cuba, as well as the importance of the ALBA alliance (which includes, among other nations, Cuba and Venezuela), and other related issues.
Brouwer’s study focuses on Cuba’s and Venezuela’s often astonishing medical workers , many of whom have left their comfortable backgrounds to travel to poor communities in their respective countries in order to practice health care from a grassroots-level approach. The author of other works such as Sharing the Pie,Conquest and Capitalism: 1492 to 1992, and Exporting the Gospel, Brouwer paints a vivid picture of the challenges and accomplishments faced by these doughty medics, who have accepted the difficult credo facing the hardships in delivering health care to all. This story has at times transformed the way Latin Americans think about health care, and helps to shed light on unique approaches that can be applied to improve other all too often unjust and defective health care systems that today are functioning around the world.
This title can be purchased in any major bookstore for approximately US$18.95, or can be obtained by calling COHA at (202) 223 – 4975 or e-mailing us at coha@coha.org.
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