Comrades in health : U.S. health internationalists, abroad and at home / edited by Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Theodore M. Brown.

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2013], ©2013.

xvi, 349 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

I. Health comrades in context -- Introduction: health comrades, abroad and at home / Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Theodore M. Brown -- The making of health internationalists / Theodore M. Brown and Anne-Emanuelle Birn -- II. Generation born in the 1870s-1910s -- The perils of unconstrained enthusiasm: John Kingsbury, Soviet public health, and 1930s America / Susan Gross Solomon -- American medical support for Spanish democracy, 1936-1938 / Walter J. Lear -- Medical McCarthyism and the punishment of internationalists in the United States / Jane Pacht Brickman -- III. Generation born in the 1920s-1930s -- Contesting racism and innovating community health centers: approaches on two continents / H. Jack Geiger -- Barefoot in China, the Bronx, and beyond / Victor W. Sidel and Ruth Sidel -- Medical internationalism and the "last epidemic" / Bernard Lown -- IV. Generation born in the 1940s-1960s -- Social medicine, at home and abroad / Howard Waitzkin -- Find the best people and support them / Paula Braveman -- Cooperantes, solidarity, and the fight for health in Mozambique / Stephen Gloyd, James Pfeiffer and Wendy Johnson -- From Harlem to Harare: lessons in how social movements and social policy change health / Mary Travis Bassett -- V. Generation born in the 1960s-1970 -- Brigadistas and revolutionaries: health and social justice in El Salvador / Michael Terry with Laura Turiano -- Health and human rights in Latin America : a lawyer's experience with public health internationalism / Alicia Ey Yamin -- History, theory, and praxis in Pacific Islands health / Seiji Yamada -- Doctors for global health: applying liberation medicine and accompanying communities in their struggles for health and social justice / Lanny Smith, Jennifer Kasper, and Timothy H. Holtz -- Doctors across blockades: American medical students in Cuba / Razel Remen and Brea Bondi-Boyd -- VI. Conclusion -- Across the generations: lessons from health internationalism / Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Theodore M. Brown.