Health and Medicine in the Circum-Caribbean, 1800-1968

by De Barros, Juanita; Palmer, Steven; Wright, David

• ISBN13: 9780203880203
• ISBN10: 020388020X
• Copyright: 2009-04-09
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

For the first time in the study of history of colonial and post-colonial medicine, Health and Medicine in the circum-Carribean, 1800 1968 collects essays on the history of medical policy and practices from throughout the French, British, Hispanic, Dutch, and Danish Caribbean.

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

"...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

""Any elderly, sensible, prudent woman": The Practice and Practitioners of Midwifery during Slavery in the British Caribbean

From the Plantation to the Academy: Slavery and the Production of Cuban Medicine in the Nineteenth Century

Race and the Authorization of Biomedicine in Yucatán, Mexico

A Benign Place of Healing?: The Contagious Diseases Hospital and Medical Discipline in Post Slavery Barbados

Tolerating Sex: Prostitution, Gender, and Governance in the Dominican Republic, 1880s-1924

The Politics of Professionalization: Puerto Rican Physicians during the Transition from Spanish to U.S. Colonialism

"Improving the Standard of Motherhood": Infant Mortality and the "Mothercraft" Movement in British Guiana

Health in the French Antilles: The Impact of the First World War

The Difficulty of Unhooking the Hookworm: The Rockefeller Foundation, Grace Schneiders-Howard, and Public Health Care in Suriname in the Early Twentieth Century

Public Health and Women in Trinidad and Tobago, 1939-1962

"Red Marly Soil": A Public Health History of Bauxite Mining, Disease, and Medicalization in Jamaica, 1938 to 1968

Contributors

References

Index

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