Modern colonization by medical intervention : : U.S. medicine in Puerto Rico / / by Nicole Truijillo-Pagán.

• Superior document: Studies in critical social sciences, volume 58
• Author: Trujillo-Pagan, Nicole.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden [The Netherlands] : : Brill,, 2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 58.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (260 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Modern Colonization by Medical Intervention adds to our understanding of the political and economic transformations establishing colonial modernity in Puerto Rico. By focusing on influential physicians’ clinical work and their access to a remote and inaccessible rural population, this volume details how rural areas suffered the ravages of social dislocation, unemployment and hunger. The colonial administration’s hookworm campaign involved many Puerto Rican physicians in complex struggles with other elites, rural peasants and U.S. colonial administrators for political legitimacy. Puerto Rican physicians did not gain the professional autonomy their counterparts in the United States enjoyed. Instead, they became centrally implicated in the struggle between labor and capital enforcing the island’s subordination to a colonial modernity and the development of capitalism on the island.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Nicole Trujillo-Pagán -- A Matter of Life and Death / Nicole Trujillo-Pagán -- Anemia and Autonomy / Nicole Trujillo-Pagán -- Colonial Interventions on Public Health and the Bifurcation of Puerto Rican Medicine / Nicole Trujillo-Pagán -- National Physicians and Professional Prestige / Nicole Trujillo-Pagán -- Race, Progress and National Identity / Nicole Trujillo-Pagán -- Decolonizing Dominant Narratives / Nicole Trujillo-Pagán -- Bibliography / Nicole Trujillo-Pagán -- Index / Nicole Trujillo-Pagán.