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viii, 309 p. : map ; 24 cm |
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Routledge studies in the social history of medicine ; 33
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-286) and index |
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"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 / Niklas Thode Jenson -- "Any elderly, sensible, prudent woman" : the practice and practitioners of midwifery during slavery in the British Caribbean / Tara A. Inniss -- From the plantation to the academy : slavery and the production of Cuban medicine in the nineteenth century / Steven Palmer -- Race and the authorization of biomedicine in Yucatán, Mexico / David Sowell -- A benign place of healing? : the contagious diseases hospital and medical discipline in post-slavery Barbados / Denise Challenger -- Tolerating sex : prostitution, gender, and governance in the Dominican Republic, 1880s-1924 / April J. Mayes -- The politics of professionalization : Puerto Rican physicians during the transition from Spanish to US colonialism / Nicole Trujillo-Pag?n -- "Improving the standard of motherhood" : infant welfare in post-slavery British Guiana / Juanita De Barros -- Health in the French Antilles : the impact of the First World War / Jacques Dumont -- The difficulty of unhooking the hookworm : the Rockefeller Foundation, Grace Schneiders-Howard, and public health care in Suriname in the early twentieth century / Rosemarijn Hoefte -- World War II to independence : health, services, and women in Trinidad and Tobago, 1939-1962 / Debbie McCollin -- "Red marly soil" : medicine, environment, and bauxite mining in modern Jamaica, 1938 to post-independence / David McBride |
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Public health -- Caribbean Area -- History
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Medicine -- Caribbean Area -- History
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Imperialism -- Health aspects -- Caribbean Area -- History
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Public Health -- history -- Caribbean Region
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Colonialism -- history -- Caribbean Region
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History, 19th Century -- Caribbean Region
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History, 20th Century -- Caribbean Region
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Social Problems -- history -- Caribbean Region
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| Alt Author |
De Barros, Juanita
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Palmer, Steven Paul
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Wright, David, 1965-
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