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

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...

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Superior document:Studies in critical social sciences, volume 58
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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.
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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.