Launching global health : the Caribbean odyssey of the Rockefeller Foundation / Steven Palmer.

  • Palmer, Steven Paul.
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[2010], ©2010
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Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2010], ©2010.

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xi, 301 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

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Migrant clinics and hookworm science : the peripheral origins of international health, 1840-1914 -- Launching global health -- Local material : social and political character of the missions -- The intensive method -- Laboratories of Creole modernity (or, The demon that turned into worms) -- Many missions.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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    History of Medicine
    JO /PAL
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  • 9780472070893
  • 0472070894