Title: The Cuban cure
Subtitle: biotechnology, politics, and global science
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.
Subjects: Biotechnology, Science, History, Science, history, Cuba, history, 1959-, History, 20th Century
Places: Cuba
Time periods: 20th century