Trujillo-Pagan, Nicole Elise (Author)
Brill
Physical Details: viii + 250 pp.; ill.
Language: English
Modern Colonization by Medical Intervention adds to our understanding of the political and economic transformations establishing colonial modernity in Puerto Rico. By focusing on influential physicians' clinical work and their access to a remote and inaccessible rural population, this volume details how rural areas suffered the ravages of social dislocation, unemployment and hunger. The colonial administration's hookworm campaign involved many Puerto Rican physicians in complex struggles with other elites, rural peasants and U.S. colonial administrators for political legitimacy. Puerto Rican physicians did not gain the professional autonomy their counterparts in the United States enjoyed. Instead, they became centrally implicated in the struggle between labor and capital enforcing the island's subordination to a colonial modernity and the development of capitalism on the island.
...MoreReview Juanita De Barros (2016) Review of "Modern Colonization by Medical Intervention: U.S. Medicine in Puerto Rico". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (pp. 101-103).
Review Espinosa, Mariola (2015) Review of "Modern Colonization by Medical Intervention: U.S. Medicine in Puerto Rico". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 356-357).
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