Slaves, Revolutions, Embargoes, and Needles
The Political Economy of Acupuncture in Cuba
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20237203 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Kadetz (0000-0002-2824-1856), Johann Perdomo Delgado (0000-0002-0207-8448) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 95-122 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1573-420X • E-ISSN: 1573-4218 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/157342110x606888 |
| OpenAlex | W2076368432 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 16 |
Medical systems have travelled and influenced one another for as long as there has been trade between differing groups. The medical systems of China have been a particularly frequent traveller, facilitated by Chinese migration and trade throughout history. The transfer and subsequent integration of acupuncture into the Cuban health care system can be best understood in terms of various political and economic forces from the mid-nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century. This paper will demonstrate that how acupuncture was transferred to Cuba; why it was integrated into the national health care system of Cuba; and how acupuncture is currently understood and practised in the Cuban context can be best understood as a result of specific political and economic factors
Acupuncture · Alternative medicine · Asian studies · China · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Health care · Medical care · Pathology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Traditional Chinese medicine · Western medicine · Chinese history and philosophy · Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies · History · History of Medicine Studies · Law · Medicine · Nursing
Health Diplomacy and the Enduring Relevance of Foreign Policy Interests
The Birth of the Clinic
Hippocrates' Latin American Legacy
Macroeconomic Change and the Biopolitics of Health in Cuba's Special Period
Primary care in Cuba
Herbal mixtures in the traditional medicine of Eastern Cuba
China's Health Diplomacy in Africa
Healing the Masses
The impact of the economic crisis and the US embargo on health in Cuba
Cuban Medical Internationalism and the Development of the Latin American School of Medicine
Toward a critical medical anthropology
Chinese Medicine and Medical Pluralism in Dar es Salaam
Changing the Structure of Medical Discourse
The medicine from China has rapid effects
Global Health Diplomacy
Migration and Ethnobotanical Practices
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.09 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |