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Health and medicine in the circum-Caribbean, 1800-1968
- Title
- Health and medicine in the circum-Caribbean, 1800-1968 / edited by Juanita De Barros, Steven Palmer and David Wright.
- Publication
- New York : Routledge, 2009.
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- Description
- viii, 309 pages : map; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Routledge studies in the social history of medicine ; 33
- Uniform Title
- Routledge studies in the social history of medicine ; 33.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-286) and index.
- Contents
- 1. "For the benefit of the planters and the benefit of Mankind": The Struggle to Control Midwives and Obstetrics on St. Croix, Danish West Indies, 1800-1848 / Niklas Thode Jensen -- 2. "Any elderly, sensible, prudent woman": The Practice and Practitioners of Midwifery during Slavery in the British Caribbean / Tara A. Inniss -- 3. From the Plantation to the Academy: Slavery and the Production of Cuban Medicine in the Nineteenth Century / Steven Palmer -- 4. Race and the Authorization of Biomedicine in Yucatan, Mexico / David Sowell -- 5. A Benign Place of Healing?: The Contagious Diseases Hospital and Medical Discipline in Post-Slavery Barbados / Den1Se Challenger -- 6. Tolerating Sex: Prostitution, Gender, and Governance in the Dominican Republic, 1880s-1924 / April J. Mayes -- 7. The Politics of Professionalization: Puerto Rican Physicians during the Transition from Spanish to US Colonialism / Nicole Trujillo-Pagan -- 8. "Improving the Standard of Motherhood": Infant Welfare in Post-Slavery British Guiana / Juanita De Barros -- 9. Health in the French Antilles: The Impact of the First World War / Jacques Dumont -- 10. The Difficulty of Unhooking the Hookworm: The Rockefeller Foundation, Grace Schneiders-Howard, and Public Health Care in Suriname in the Early Twentieth Century / Rosemarijn Hoefte -- 11. World War II to Independence: Health, Services, and Women in Trinidad and Tobago, 1939-1962 / Debbie Mccollin -- 12. "Red Marly Soil": Medicine, Environment, and Bauxite Mining in Modern Jamaica, 1938 to Post-Independence / David Mcbride.
- ISBN
- 9780415962902 (hbk)
- 0415962900 (hbkk)
- LCCN
- 2008041194
- 40016679534
- OCLC
- ocn259715975
- 259715975
- SCSB-5472414
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries