The Cuban cure
Subtitle: biotechnology, politics, and global science
By: S.M. Reid-Henry.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780226709178
Subjects: Biotechnology -- Cuba; Science -- Cuba -- History -- 20th century
Description: How did Cuba, a politically and geographically isolated country make such impressive advances in biotechnology? Drawing on a unique ethnography, and blending the insights of anthropology sociology and geography, this book shows how Cuba came to compete with US pharmaceutical giants - despite a trade embargo and crippling national debt.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A biotechnology story; title: Imagining science; title: Making space for science; title: Science City; title: Sticky history; title: Strategic marginality; title: Peripheral assent; title: The Cuban cure.