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Medicine and Nation Building in the Americas, 1890-1940
Jose Amador
Medicine and Nation Building in the Americas, 1890-1940
Medicine and Nation Building in the Americas, 1890-1940
Jose Amador
Descripción
As medical science progressed through the nineteenth century, the United States was at the forefront of public health initiatives across the Americas. Dreadful sanitary conditions were relieved, lives were saved, and health care developed into a formidable institution throughout Latin America as doctors and bureaucrats from the United States flexed their scientific muscle. This wasn't a purely altruistic enterprise, however, as Jose Amador reveals in Medicine and Nation Building in the Americas, 1890-1940. Rather, these efforts almost served as a precursor to modern American interventionism. For places like Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Brazil, these initiatives were especially invasive. Drawing on sources in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Brazil, and the United States, Amador shows that initiatives launched in colonial settings laid the foundation for the rise of public health programs in the hemisphere and transformed debates about the formation of national culture. Writers rethought theories of environmental and racial danger, while Cuban reformers invoked the yellow fever campaign to exclude nonwhite immigrants. Puerto Rican peasants flooded hookworm treatment stations, and Brazilian sanitarians embraced regionalist and imperialist ideologies. Together, these groups illustrated that public health campaigns developed in the shadow of empire propelled new conflicts and conversations about achieving modernity and progress in the tropics. This book is a recipient of the annual Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize for the best project in the area of medicine.
Detalles
| Formato | Tapa suave |
| Número de Páginas | 232 |
| Lenguaje | Inglés |
| Editorial | Vanderbilt University Press |
| Fecha de Publicación | 2015-03-03 |
| Dimensiones | 9.82" x 7.52" x 0.61" pulgadas |
| Letra Grande | No |
| Con Ilustraciones | No |
| Temas | Histórico, América Latina |
Acerca del Autor
Amador, Jose
Jose Amador is Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies at Miami University of Ohio.Garantía & Otros
| Garantía: | 30 dias por defectos de fabrica |
| Peso: | 0.467 kg |
| SKU: | 9780826520210 |
| Publicado en Unimart.com: | 01/11/23 |
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