{"product_id":"che-and-medicine-ernesto-guevara-on-the-social-role-of-doctors-9781644214251","title":"Che and Medicine: Ernesto Guevara on the Social Role of Doctors","description":"\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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eERNESTO GUEVARA DE LA SERNA\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Rosario, Argentina, on June 14, 1928. During his medical studies in Buenos Aires, he took a trip with his friend Alberto Granado on an old Norton motorcycle through all of Latin America, the basis for\u003ci\u003e The Motorcycle Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1954, he became involved in political activity in Guatemala and was an eyewitness to the overthrow of the elected government in a CIA-organized coup. In Mexico City, Che linked up with exiled Cuban revolutionaries and met Fidel Castro in 1955. He would go on to become a Rebel Army commander, a key leader of the new revolutionary government, and a central leader of what would become the Communist Party of Cuba. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eALEIDA GUEVARA MARCH, MD\u003c\/b\u003e, is a Cuban physician who is the eldest daughter of four children born to Ernesto \"Che\" Guevara and his second wife, Aleida March. She is a doctor of medicine, based at the William Soler Children's Hospital in Havana. She has also worked as a physician in Angola, Ecuador, and Nicaragua.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51779012100370,"sku":"9781644214251","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_94e52812-c7d2-4622-87a3-a19675ab7106.jpg?v=1765365022","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/che-and-medicine-ernesto-guevara-on-the-social-role-of-doctors-9781644214251","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}