Medical Internationalism: Cuba and Eastern Europe, 1959-1999

该项目旨在了解冷战期间和冷战后医学作为软实力工具的历史。报告以古巴为个案研究，希望通过分析古巴、苏联和捷克斯洛伐克医科学生、临床从业人员、研究人员和公共卫生官员之间的专业和人际关系，对东方社会主义争取全球南方“人心”的斗争产生新的认识。预期结果包括跨国历史和医疗史的改进方法。这将带来显著的好处，例如提高澳大利亚作为历史发现和创新地点的知名度，并为当代外交提供历史背景。

This project aims to understand the history of medicine as an instrument of soft power during and after the Cold War. Taking Cuba as a case study, it expects to generate new knowledge about the socialist East's fight to win ‘hearts and minds’ in the global South by analysing the professional and interpersonal relationships that developed among Cuban, Soviet, and Czechoslovak medical students, clinical practitioners, researchers and public health officials. Expected outcomes include refined methods of transnational history and medical history. This should provide significant benefits, such as enhancing Australia's visibility as a site of historical discovery and innovation, and offering historical context for contemporary diplomacy.