{"product_id":"che-and-medicine","title":"Che and Medicine: Ernesto Guevara on the Social Role of Doctors","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eChe Guevara’s passion for public health contributed to his a legacy of social medicine in Latin America, and this book explores and reveals his thoughts on the role of a doctor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeatures an introduction by Aleida Guevara March, MD, a Cuban physician who is the eldest daughter of four children born to Ernesto \"Che\" Guevara and his second wife, Aleida March\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBefore Ernesto Che Guevara became “Che,” before he traveled Latin America, before he joined Fidel in Cuba, he was a medical student. In 1956 he wrote to his mother before leaving to go and join the guerilla expedition to Cuba: “My path seems to be slowly but surely diverging from that of clinical medicine, but not so far that I have lost\u003cspan class=\"atm_keep-reading-flag\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e\u003ci class=\"fa fa-arrow-down\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e my nostalgia for hospitals. What I told you about the professorship in physiology was a lie, but not a big one. It was a lie because I never planned to accept it, but the offer was real and there was a strong possibility that they were going to give it to me, as I had an interview and everything. Anyway, that’s all history. Saint Carlos [Karl Marx] has made a new recruit.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe had started a book on the role of the doctor in Latin America, a work he fully intended to continue writing. It remained incomplete at the time of his death in Bolivia at the age of thirty-nine, just eleven years later.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44515770269789,"sku":"9781644214251","price":25.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/CheandMedicine.jpg?v=1782149718","url":"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/fr\/products\/che-and-medicine","provider":"Leftwingbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}