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By Julie M. Feinsilver. 307 pp. Berkeley, Calif., University of California Press, 1993. $45 (cloth); $17 (paper). ISBN 0-520-08218-4 (cloth)

This book is a political rather than a public health account of the considerable accomplishments of the Cuban health care system. The topic is felicitous for the debate about health care in the United States. At a time when new U.S. investments in global health are declining and domestic expenditures in the world's most costly health care system are being closely monitored by economists, an example of a poor, developing country that puts health first and achieves levels of health comparable to those in the United States at a fraction of U.S. per capita expenditure is revealing. Feinsilver, in this . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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