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Modern Colonization by Medical Intervention: U.S. Medicine in Puerto Rico

Modern Colonization by Medical Intervention: U.S. Medicine in Puerto Rico

Trujillo-Pagán, Nicole

Paperback

Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Book 58

General Political ScienceGeneral SociologyPoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 1608464199
ISBN13: 9781608464197
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: Nov 25 2014
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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