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