Health and Medicine in the circum-Caribbean, 1800–1968

Author:   Juanita De Barros ,  Steven Palmer ,  David Wright (McMaster University, Canada)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   310
Publication Date:   23 April 2015
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Author:   Juanita De Barros ,  Steven Palmer ,  David Wright (McMaster University, Canada)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138867543


ISBN 10:   1138867543
Pages:   310
Publication Date:   23 April 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"List of Figures. Acknowledgments. Introduction. 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 Jenson. 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 Yucatán, Mexico. David Sowell. 5. A Benign Place of Healing?: The Contagious Diseases Hospital and Medical Discipline in Post Slavery Barbados. Denise 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 U.S. Colonialism. Nicole Trujillo-Pagán. 8. ""Improving the Standard of Motherhood"": Infant Mortality and the ""Mothercraft"" Movement in 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. Public Health and Women in Trinidad and Tobago, 1939-1962. Debbie McCollin. 12. ""Red Marly Soil"": A Public Health History of Bauxite Mining, Disease, and Medicalization in Jamaica, 1938 to 1968. David McBride. Contributors. References. Index."

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Juanita De Barros is an associate professor in the Department of History at McMaster University. Her research concentrates on urban history and the history of public health and health workers in the British Caribbean. She written and co-edited several books and numerous articles on Caribbean history. Most recently, she co-edited (along with Audra Diptee and David Trotman) a collection of essays on recent Caribbean historiography (Beyond Fragmentation: Perspectives on Caribbean History, 2006). Steven Palmer is Canada Research Chair in History of International Health at the University of Windsor. He has published a number of books and articles on the history of nationalism, education, social policy, medicine and public health in Costa Rica. His book, Launching Global Health: The Caribbean Odyssey of the Rockefeller Foundation, will be published in 2009. He is currently completing research on the politics of Cuban medicine in the age of bacteriology and US empire. David Wright is the Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. He is the author and co-editor of six books and two dozen articles on the history of mental health and psychiatry, including, most recently (with John Weaver, eds.), Histories of Self-Destruction: Suicide in the Modern Western World (2008).

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