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Author Trujillo-Pagán, Nicole E. (Nicole Elise), author.

Title Modern colonization by medical intervention : U.S. medicine in Puerto Rico / by Nicole Trujillo-Pagan
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Studies in critical social sciences, 1573-4234 ; volume 58
Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 58.
Contents Modern Colonization by Medical Intervention -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- 1. A Matter of Life and Death -- Economy and Social Conditions: Labor and Hunger -- Medicine: Hookworms -- Method
Summary This volume explores the establishment of US colonial rule over Puerto Rico through the appropriation and usurpation of the status of local physicians, the undermining of their political legitimacy, and its role in the development of capitalism in the colony
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Rural health services -- Puerto Rico
Medicine -- Political aspects -- Puerto Rico
Medicine, Rural -- Practice -- Puerto Rico
Physicians -- Puerto Rico -- Social conditions
Tropical medicine -- Puerto Rico
Public Health -- history
Colonialism -- history
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Physicians -- history
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
International relations
Medicine -- Political aspects
Medicine, Rural -- Practice
Physicians -- Social conditions
Rural health services
Tropical medicine
SUBJECT United States -- Relations -- Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D011647
United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Subject Puerto Rico
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004243712
9004243712
1299870562
9781299870567