Modern Colonization by Medical Intervention: U.S. Medicine in Puerto Rico (Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Band 58) - Softcover

Trujillo-Pagán, Nicole

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1608464199 ISBN 13: 9781608464197

Verlag: Haymarket Books, 2014

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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.

What emerges is a ground breaking and damning account of the way that seemingly humanitarian efforts were used to oppress a subject population and maintain colonial rule.

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Nicole Trujillo-Pagán, Ph.D. (2003), University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Latina/o Studies at Wayne State University. She has published articles and book chapters on Latinos and state policy.

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• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1608464199
• ISBN 13: 9781608464197
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 250
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