Introduction -- Bodies in states of crisis -- Biopolitics in the "special period" -- The biopolitics of health -- Expanding therapeutic itineraries -- Socialist governmentality, public health, and risk -- Medicalized subjectivities -- Curing the ills of society -- Preventative strategies and productive bodies -- We have to think like capitalists but continue being socialists -- Turismo y salud, S.A. : the rise of social entrepreneurs -- My doctor keeps the lights on -- Bodies entangled in history