The current book introduces an unique (new) point of view on Cuba. This publication revisits Cuba's selection, after the 1959 revolution, to strengthen a sophisticated healthcare and clinical procedure. It additionally introduces new points of the matter development/underdevelopment. From the beginning, each attempt of the Cuban management and clinical neighborhood was once pushed by means of the first function of assembly the country’s simple monetary and social wishes. quick key measures taken after the revolution incorporated loose schooling as much as  larger degrees and loose health and wellbeing providers. in just a number of a long time 3rd international ailments have been defeated and a primary international health and wellbeing profile was once completed. within the sciences, aid and collaboration was once sought and welcomed from either Soviet and western international locations. in addition, a result of backward place of the Soviet Union in genetics and molecular biology, within the early Nineteen Seventies Cuban scientists have been knowledgeable in those fields typically through Italian biologists. within the following decade, in the beginning counting on contacts with American and Finnish experts, Cuban biologists and physicians equipped a wide commercial biotechnology advanced to supply and commercialize Cuban-made, and sometimes invented, medications and vaccines.

In the early Nineteen Nineties the surprising cave in of the Soviet Union and the socialist industry created an unheard of problem. but Cuba’s medical approach considerably resiled, regardless of unavoidable setbacks. This hindrance used to be confronted by means of confirming and reinforcing executive help for biotechnology, with the outcome that this present day Cuba excels at an international point within the average capital-intensive box of biotechnology.

While this e-book is mainly dedicated to historians of technological know-how and expertise and to biotechnologists, it is of curiosity to the final public.