Finlay Institute

Building in Havana, Cuba.

At a glance

Source	Author	Role	In one line
How I Learned to Understand the World	Hans Rosling	setting	Rosling and Per Lundquist are briefed by Cuban scientists on the 1993 neuropathy epidemic.

How I Learned to Understand the World — Hans Rosling

Source: How I Learned to Understand the World · Readwise highlight

The following day we were collected from the hotel and driven to the Finlay Institute. The Cuban medical scientists who had been working on the epidemic—epidemiologists, clinicians, and laboratory scientists—were waiting to meet us.

• Role: setting
• In the book: Rosling and Per Lundquist are briefed by Cuban scientists on the 1993 neuropathy epidemic. Armed men in gym shoes enter the lab and Fidel Castro arrives, greeting Rosling as ‘el sueco’ and having memorized his CV.
• Why it matters: Site of the first meeting with Castro, which leads to his being asked to stay and investigate. Set elsewhere, the surveillance and dictator theatre would vanish.