Health and Medicine in the Circum-Caribbean, 1800-1968

, by De Barros, Juanita; Palmer, Steven; Wright, David

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ISBN: 9780203880203 | 020388020X
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Copyright: 4/9/2009

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For the first time in the study of history of colonial and post-colonial medicine, Health and Medicine in the circum-Carribean, 1800 1968 collects essays on the history of medical policy and practices from throughout the French, British, Hispanic, Dutch, and Danish Caribbean.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
"...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
""Any elderly, sensible, prudent woman": The Practice and Practitioners of Midwifery during Slavery in the British Caribbean
From the Plantation to the Academy: Slavery and the Production of Cuban Medicine in the Nineteenth Century
Race and the Authorization of Biomedicine in Yucatán, Mexico
A Benign Place of Healing?: The Contagious Diseases Hospital and Medical Discipline in Post Slavery Barbados
Tolerating Sex: Prostitution, Gender, and Governance in the Dominican Republic, 1880s-1924
The Politics of Professionalization: Puerto Rican Physicians during the Transition from Spanish to U.S. Colonialism
"Improving the Standard of Motherhood": Infant Mortality and the "Mothercraft" Movement in British Guiana
Health in the French Antilles: The Impact of the First World War
The Difficulty of Unhooking the Hookworm: The Rockefeller Foundation, Grace Schneiders-Howard, and Public Health Care in Suriname in the Early Twentieth Century
Public Health and Women in Trinidad and Tobago, 1939-1962
"Red Marly Soil": A Public Health History of Bauxite Mining, Disease, and Medicalization in Jamaica, 1938 to 1968
Contributors
References
Index
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Health and Medicine in the Circum-Caribbean, 1800-1968

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