Medicine and Nation Building in the Americas, 1890-1940 Jose Amador.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Amador, Jose, 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social history--history--Americas.

Social history.

History, 20th Century--Americas.

History, 20th Century.

History, 19th Century--Americas.

History, 19th Century.

Disease Eradication--history--Americas.

Disease Eradication.

Public health administration--history--Americas.

Public health administration.

Latin America--History--19th century.

Latin America.

Latin America--History--20th century.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015

Place of Publication:

Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2014.

Summary:

"Health of Empire is a transnational history of public health and intellectual thought following the U.S. imperial expansion of 1898. Jose 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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780826502988

0826502989

9780826520210

0826520219

9780826520227

0826520227

OCLC:

900081330