Modern colonization by medical intervention : U.S. medicine in Puerto Rico /

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This volume explores the establishment of US colonial rule over Puerto Rico through the appropriation and usurpation of the status of local physicians, the undermining of their political legitimacy, and its role in the development of capitalism in the colony.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Trujillo-Pagán, Nicole E. (Nicole Elise) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
Series:Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 58.
Subjects:
Rural health services > Puerto Rico.
Medicine > Political aspects > Puerto Rico.
Medicine, Rural > Practice > Puerto Rico.
Physicians > Puerto Rico > Social conditions.
Tropical medicine > Puerto Rico.
Public Health > history
Colonialism > history
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Physicians > history
Services de santé rurale > Porto Rico.
Médecine > Aspect politique > Porto Rico.
Médecins > Porto Rico > Conditions sociales.
Médecine tropicale > Porto Rico.
Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
International relations
Medicine > Political aspects
Medicine, Rural > Practice
Physicians > Social conditions
Rural health services
Tropical medicine
United States > Relations > Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Modern Colonization by Medical Intervention
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • List of Tables and Figures
  • 1. A Matter of Life and Death
  • Economy and Social Conditions: Labor and Hunger
  • Medicine: Hookworms
  • Method

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