Book ID: CBB001230954

Health and Medicine in the Circum-Caribbean, 1800--1968 (2009)

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Barros, Juanita de (Editor)
Palmer, Steven Paul (Editor)
Wright, David (Editor)


Routledge
Publication date: 2009
Language: English


Publication Date: 2009
Physical Details: vii + 309 pp.; maps; bibl.; index

Description Contents:


Reviewed By

Review Pemberton, Rita (2011) Review of "Health and Medicine in the Circum-Caribbean, 1800--1968". Social History (p. 350). unapi

Review Abel, Christopher (2012) Review of "Health and Medicine in the Circum-Caribbean, 1800--1968". Medical History (pp. 110-111). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Jenson, Niklas Thode (2009) “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. In: Health and Medicine in the Circum-Caribbean, 1800--1968. unapi

Chapter Inniss, Tara A. (2009) “Any Elderly, Sensible, Prudent Woman”: The Practice and Practitioners of Midwifery during Slavery in the British Caribbean. In: Health and Medicine in the Circum-Caribbean, 1800--1968. unapi

Chapter Palmer, Steven (2009) From the Plantation to the Academy: Slavery and the Production of Cuban Medicine in the Nineteenth Century. In: Health and Medicine in the Circum-Caribbean, 1800--1968. unapi

Chapter Sowell, David (2009) Race and the Authorization of Biomedicine in Yucatán, Mexico. In: Health and Medicine in the Circum-Caribbean, 1800--1968. unapi

Chapter Challenger, Denise (2009) A Benign Place of Healing? The Contagious Diseases Hospital and Medical Discipline in Post-Slavery Barbados. In: Health and Medicine in the Circum-Caribbean, 1800--1968. unapi

Chapter Mayes, April J. (2009) Tolerating Sex: Prostitution, Gender, and Governance in the Dominican Republic, 1880s--1924. In: Health and Medicine in the Circum-Caribbean, 1800--1968. unapi

Chapter Trujillo-Pagán, Nicole (2009) The Politics of Professionalization: Puerto Rican Physicians during the Transition from Spanish to US Colonialism. In: Health and Medicine in the Circum-Caribbean, 1800--1968. unapi

Chapter de Barros, Juanita (2009) “Improving the Standard of Motherhood”: Infant Welfare In Post-Slavery British Guiana. In: Health and Medicine in the Circum-Caribbean, 1800--1968. unapi

Chapter Dumont, Jacques (2009) Health in the French Antilles: The Impact of the First World War. In: Health and Medicine in the Circum-Caribbean, 1800--1968. unapi

Chapter Hoefte, Rosemarijn (2009) The Difficulty of Unhooking the Hookworm: The Rockefeller Foundation, Grace Schneiders-Howard, and Public Health Care in Suriname in the Early Twentieth Century. In: Health and Medicine in the Circum-Caribbean, 1800--1968. unapi

Chapter McCollin, Debbie (2009) World War II to Independence: Health, Services, and Women in Trinidad and Tobago, 1939--1962. In: Health and Medicine in the Circum-Caribbean, 1800--1968. unapi

Chapter McBride, David (2009) “Red Marly Soil”: Medicine, Environment, and Bauxite Mining in Modern Jamaica, 1938 to Post-Independence. In: Health and Medicine in the Circum-Caribbean, 1800--1968. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Jensen, Niklas Thode
Carrillo, Ana María
Covey, Herbert C.
Cueto, Marcos
Fett, Sharla M.
Forde, Maarit
Journals
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
American Historical Review
Nineteenth-Century Contexts
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Slavery and Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies
Social History of Medicine
Publishers
University of North Carolina Press
Princeton University
University of Toronto
Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fundaçao Oswaldo Cruz
Duke University Press
Harvard University Press
Concepts
Slavery
Medicine
Medicine and race
Public health
Disease and diseases
Medicine and law
People
Kingsley, Charles
Sims, James Marion
Cassin, Frieda
Ladoo, Harold Sonny
Kincaid, Jamaica
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
17th century
Early modern
Places
Caribbean
United States
Great Britain
Southern states (U.S.)
Atlantic world
Africa
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