The Cuban Cure: Reason and Resistance in Global Science
The Cuban Cure: Reason and Resistance in Global Science
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古巴疗法：全球科学中的理性与阻力
DOI：
10.7208/chicago/9780226709192.001.0001
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2010
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S. Reid
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菲德尔·卡斯特罗1959年上台后，继社会主义之后，他的第二个宣言是古巴将成为国际科学的领导者。在生物技术方面，他将被证明是正确的，而今天古巴的名字里有一种乙型脑膜炎疫苗和尖端癌症疗法。但这个政治和地理上与世隔绝的国家是如何取得如此令人印象深刻的进步的？《古巴药方》以独特的民族志为基础，融合了哲学、社会学和地理学的见解，展示了古巴是如何在贸易禁运和沉重的国家债务的情况下与美国制药巨头竞争的。在揭示古巴生物医学科学的独特之处时，西蒙·里德-亨利研究了古巴生物技术研究对西方科学文化和实践模式全球化的阻力。他阐述了当两种研究文化相遇时发生的认知、社会和意识形态冲突，以及这种互动是如何随着政治和经济环境的变化而发展的。通过关于社会经济系统的交集和创新的性质的新论点，《古巴疗法》展示了全球化背景下对政治和科学的富有启发性的研究。
After Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, his second declaration, after socialism, was that Cuba would become a leader in international science. In biotechnology he would be proven right, and today Cuba counts a meningitis B vaccine and cutting-edge cancer therapies to its name. But how did this politically and geographically isolated country make such impressive advances? Drawing on a unique ethnography, and blending the insights of philosophy, sociology, and geography, "The Cuban Cure" shows how Cuba came to compete with U.S. pharmaceutical giants - despite a trade embargo and crippling national debt. In uncovering what is distinct about Cuban biomedical science, Simon Reid-Henry examines the forms of resistance that biotechnology research in Cuba presents to the globalization of western models of scientific culture and practice. He illustrates the epistemic, social, and ideological clashes that take place when two cultures of research meet, and how such interactions develop as political and economic circumstances change.Through a novel argument about the intersection of socioeconomic systems and the nature of innovation, "The Cuban Cure" presents an illuminating study of politics and science in the context of globalization.