Launching global health
Subtitle: the Caribbean odyssey of the Rockefeller Foundation
By: Steven Palmer.
Series: Conversations in medicine and society; Conversations in medicine and society
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780472070893
Subjects: Rockefeller Foundation. -- International Health Commission; Rockefeller Foundation. -- International Health Commission; World health; Public health -- Caribbean Area; Hookworm Infections -- prevention & control -- Central America; Hookworm Infections -- prevention & control -- Trinidad and Tobago; Communicable Disease Control -- history -- Central America; Communicable Disease Control -- history -- Trinidad and Tobago; International Cooperation -- history -- Central America; International Cooperation -- history -- Trinidad and Tobago
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Migrant clinics and hookworm science : the peripheral origins of international health, 1840-1914; title: Launching global health; title: Local material : social and political character of the missions; title: The intensive method; title: Laboratories of Creole modernity (or, The demon that turned into worms); title: Many missions.