Book ID: CBB000301936

Missions for Science: U. S. Technology and Medicine in America's African World (2002)

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McBride, David (Author)


Rutgers University Press


Publication Date: 2002
Physical Details: viii + 308 pp.; maps; ill.; tables; notes; references; index
Language: English

Description Explores how the pursuit of the scientific ideal of progress, and the technical and medical outgrowths of this pursuit, have shaped the African Diaspora in the southern United States, the trans-Atlantic world, the Panama Canal Zone, Haiti, and Liberia.


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Review Holbrook, Jarita (2003) Review of "Missions for Science: U. S. Technology and Medicine in America's African World". Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Hatch, Anthony Ryan
Muigai, Wangui
Ellen C. Scott
Kornweibel, Theodore, Jr.
Doyle, Dennis A.
Wynia, Matthew K.
Concepts
African Americans and science
African Americans
Medicine and race
Technology and race
Public health
Physicians; doctors
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
21st century
Places
United States
North America
Southern states (U.S.)
Georgia (U.S.)
Maryland (U.S.)
Caribbean
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