Medicine and nation building in the Americas, 1890-1940 / José Amador.
- Amador, José, 1970-
- Date:
- [2015]
- Books
About this work
Description
"Health of Empire is a transnational history of public health and intellectual thought following the U.S. imperial expansion of 1898. José Amador shows that physicians and intellectuals in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Brazil, and not just itinerant American health officials, defined the political and cultural terms of public health campaigns"-- Provided by publisher.
Publication/Creation
Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2015]
Physical description
ix, 219 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contributors
Awards note
Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize
Contents
Cautionary tales : narratives of disease, danger, and possibility -- Beyond yellow fever eradication : nation and racial gatekeeping in cuba -- The pursuit of health : colonialism and hookworm eradication in Puerto Rico -- Converging missions : public health bandeiras and rockefeller philanthropy in Brazil -- A turn to culture : public health legacies and transnational academic circuits.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-210) and index.
Languages
Subjects
- Public health administrationNorth AmericaHistory
- Public health administrationLatin AmericaHistory
- MedicineLatin AmericaHistory
- Public Health Administrationhistory
- Disease Eradicationhistory
- History, 19th Century
- History, 20th Century
- Social Conditionshistory
- Latin AmericaSocial conditions
- Latin AmericaHistory19th century
- Latin AmericaHistory20th century
Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineJOF.7.AA8-9Open shelves
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 9780826520203
- 0826520200
- 9780826520210
- 0826520219