Health and medicine in the circum-Caribbean, 1800-1968
By: edited by Juanita De Barros, Steven Palmer, and David Wright.
Contributors: De Barros, Juanita.; Palmer, Steven Paul.; Wright, David, 1965-
Series: Routledge studies in the social history of medicine -- 33
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780415962902
Subjects: Public health -- Caribbean Area -- History; Medicine -- Caribbean Area -- History; Imperialism -- Health aspects -- Caribbean Area -- History; Public Health -- history -- Caribbean Region; Colonialism -- history -- Caribbean Region; History, 19th Century -- Caribbean Region; History, 20th Century -- Caribbean Region; Social Problems -- history -- Caribbean Region
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 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 / by Niklas Thode Jenson; title: Any elderly, sensible, prudent woman? : the practice and practitioners of midwifery during slavery in the British Caribbean / by Tara A. Inniss; title: From the plantation to the academy : slavery and the production of Cuban medicine in the nineteenth century / by Steven Palmer; title: Race and the authorization of biomedicine in Yucatan, Mexico / by David Sowell; title: A benign place of healing? : the contagious diseases hospital and medical discipline in post slavery Barbados / by Denise Challenger; title: Tolerating sex : prostitution, gender, and governance in the Dominican Republic, 1880s-1924 / by April J. Mayes; title: The politics of professionalization : Puerto Rican physicians during the transition from Spanish to U.S. colonialism / by Nicole Trujillo-Pagan; title: Improving the standard of motherhood : infant mortality and the "mothercraft" movement in British Guiana / by Juanita De Barros; title: Health in the French Antilles : the impact of the First World War / by Jacques Dumont; title: The difficulty of unhooking the hookworm : the Rockefeller Foundation, Grace Schneiders-Howard, and public health care in Suriname in the early twentieth century / by Rosemarijn Hoefte; title: Public health and women in Trinidad and Tobago, 1939-1962 / by Debbie McCollin; title: "Red marly soil" : a public health history of bauxite mining, disease, and medicalization in Jamaica, 1938 to 1968 / by David McBride.