The Guts of the Matter
The Guts of the Matter

Author: James L. A. Webb, Jr

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-12-12

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1108493432

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This engaging interdisciplinary study integrates the deep histories of infectious intestinal disease transmission, the sanitation revolution, and biomedical interventions.

Our Landless Patria
Our Landless Patria

Author: Rosa E. Carrasquillo

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0803215371

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In particular, marginal citizenship adopted patriarchy as a model to regulate social relations at home, failing to address gender inequalities and perpetuating class differences."--BOOK JACKET.

Modern Colonization by Medical Intervention
Modern Colonization by Medical Intervention

Author: Nicole Trujillo-Pagan

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2013-09-12

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9004243712

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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.