Radical Prescription: Citizenship and the Politics of Tuberculosis in Twentieth-Century Cuba
Thursday, November 14, 2024 3:30–5:30 PM
- LocationMelbern G. Glasscock Building
- DescriptionKelly Urban's talk will focus on her recently-published book, Radical Prescription: Citizenship and the Politics of Tuberculosis in Twentieth-Century Cuba (UNC Press, 2023). The first comprehensive study of tuberculosis in modern Cuba, Urban analyzes the medical, social, and governmental responses to the highly contagious disease as the island was heading into and emerging from the 1959 Revolution. Her study provides a window into broad questions of citizens' rights, biomedicine and public health, and political change. Reception to follow.
- Websitehttps://calendar.tamu.edu/live/events/335716-radical-prescription-citizenship-and-the-politics