Missions for science : U.S. technology and medicine in America's African world / David McBride.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McBride, David, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology transfer--Southern States.

Technology transfer.

Technology transfer--North America.

Technology transfer--Liberia.

Medical innovations--Southern States.

Medical innovations.

Medical innovations--North America.

Medical innovations--Liberia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This historical analysis explores how disease control aid from the U.S., along with shifting environmental factors, affected the development of Atlantic regions with populations of predominantly African ancestry: the southern United States, the Panama Canal Zone, Haiti, and Liberia. McBride (African American history, Pennsylvania State U.) poses questions such as "what specific technologies and medical resources were transferred by U.S. institutions to black population centers, and why?" McBride also discusses how those regions, with historical ties to the U.S., independently envisioned and utilized technology and science in their formation. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I: Enduring the Technology Take-Off

Chapter 1: Machines and Plantations: Birth of the Black Belt

Chapter 2: Industry on the Isthmus: The Panama Canal Zone

Chapter 3: Curing the Caribbean: Haiti Through the Occupation

Chapter 4: Out of the Shadows: Liberia Before World War II

PART II: Encountering the Science Superpower

Chapter 5: Malaria and Modernization: The Decline of the Black Belt

Chapter 6: Alliances and Utopias: Liberia's Search for Development

Chapter 7: Technology of Reaction: Haiti and the New Dispersal

Conclusion: Science and Hope

Notes

Selected References

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-300) and index.

ISBN:

0-8135-3545-X

1-4175-0240-1

OCLC:

614542918