Health and Medicine in the circum-Caribbean, 1800–1968
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19906834 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David J Wright (0000-0001-8666-4155), Steven Paul Palmer |
| Editors | Juanita De Barros, Steven Palmer, David Wright (0000-0001-8130-656X) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Pages | 310 |
| Publication date | 2010-11-16 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Health and Medicine in the Circum-Caribbean, 1800-1968 (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780203880203 |
| OpenAlex | W1193156864 |
| Open Library | OL52527436M |
| ISBN | 9780203880203 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: ...For the benefit of the planters and the benefit of Mankind..., The Struggle to Control Midwives and Obstetrics on St. Croix, Danish West Indies, 1800-1848 By Niklas Thode Jenson Chapter Two: Any elderly, sensible, prudent woman: The Practice and Practitioners of Midwifery during Slavery in the British Caribbean By Tara A. Inniss Chapter Three: From the Plantation to the Academy: Slavery and the Production of Cuban Medicine in the Nineteenth Century By Steven Palmer Chapter Four: Race and the Authorization of Biomedicine in Yucatan, Mexico By David Sowell Chapter Five: A Benign Place of Healing?: The Contagious Diseases Hospital and Medical Discipline in Post Slavery Barbados By Denise Challenger Chapter Six: Tolerating Sex: Prostitution, Gender, and Governance in the Dominican Republic, 1880s-1924 By April J. Mayes Chapter Seven: The Politics of Professionalization: Puerto Rican Physicians during the Transition from Spanish to U.S. Colonialism By Nicole Trujillo-Pagan Chapter Eight: Improving the Standard of Motherhood: Infant Mortality and the Mothercraft Movement in British Guiana By Juanita De Barros Chapter Nine: Health in the French Antilles: The Impact of the First World War By Jacques Dumont Chapter Ten: The Difficulty of Unhooking the Hookworm: The Rockefeller Foundation, Grace Schneiders-Howard, and Public Health Care in Suriname in the Early Twentieth Century By Rosemarijn Hoefte Chapter Eleven: Public Health and Women in Trinidad and Tobago, 1939-1962 By Debbie McCollin Chapter Twelve: Red Marly Soil: A Public Health History of Bauxite Mining, Disease, and Medicalization in Jamaica, 1938 to 1968 By David McBride Contributors References Index
Geography · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · History · 19th century · 20th century · Caribbean area · Caribbean region · Colonialism · Colonies · Diseases · General · Health & Fitness · Health aspects · Health Care Delivery · Health Care Issues · Health Policy · Imperialism · Médecine · Medical · Medicine · Public health · Santé publique · Social problems
Maroon Ecology
As fool-proof as possible
Charity and terror in eighteenth-century Jamaica
Migrating for a profession
Introduction
Competitive Cooperation and Public Health
Danish Colonial Healthcare Policy, St. Croix, Virgin Islands
Suspicion and/as Radical (Care)
Slavery
Cleansing the world of the germ of laziness
Dirt, disease and death
The black scourge? Race and the Rockefeller Foundation's tuberculosis commission in interwar Jamaica
Mulheres negras, parteiras e parturientes (Rio de Janeiro, 1810-1850)
Environment, Urbanization, and Public Health
Imperfect Models
Migrant Clinics and Hookworm Science
The Cowpox Controversy
Tackling child malnutrition in Jamaica, 1962–2020
Revisiting No Bond but the Law
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,12 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2024 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |