"Drawing on vast source materials, and with an ambitious narrative scope that transcends national borders, Eric D. Carter offers the first comprehensive intellectual and political history of the social medicine movement in Latin America, from the early twentieth century to the present day"-- Provided by publisher.

Roots: the origins of social medicine in Latin America -- Networks: how social medicine traveled internationally, 1920s-1940s -- Politics: social medicine and health reform in Chile -- Fragmentation: the politics of health and the welfare state in Argentina -- Hiatus: modernization and the fading of social medicine in the early Cold War -- Revival: the second wave of Latin American social medicine -- Resistance: social medicine and its impact, 1990s-2000s -- Making sense of Latin American social medicine.