BOOK REVIEW: THE CUBAN CURE: REASON AND RESISTANCE IN GLOBAL SCIENCE (S. M. Reid-Henry, 2010, The University of Chicago Press)

摘要

This article reviews Simon Reid-Henry's book, The Cuban Cure: Reason and Resistance in Global Science. As a location for a viable biotechnology industry, Cuba is the antithesis of what one might expect. Its 2011 gross domestic product (purchasing power parity) places it at 68 out of 226 countries. With a socialist political economy, the science of this developing country is directed by the public interest instead of the market. Reid-Henry explains how The Cuban Cure has been shaped by both globalization and nationalist rhetoric to become material (meningitis vaccines and other biotechnology products) and ideological (a reflexive scientific rationality of consagracion).