{"product_id":"modern-colonization-by-medical-intervention-u-s-medicine-in-puerto-rico-9789004243705","title":"Modern Colonization by Medical Intervention: U.S. Medicine in Puerto Rico","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eModern 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Trujillo-Pagán’s book is provocative, and invites scholars most likely from history, anthropology, medicine, and public health to read, and why not, do similar tasks in colonial and postcolonial scenarios. [... Her] analysis provides analytic tools for critically approaching and understanding medical interventions, the emergence of public health, and the clashes that emerge between allopathic medicine and other ways of understanding death and sickness under processes of modernization and colonialism. [...] This book is an invitation to create post-Foucauldian analyses in the tropics to reveal power and resistance relationships in the context of medical and public health discourses and practices. Héctor Camilo Ruiz Sánchez (University of Pittsburgh, USA), International Sociology Reviews 2015, Vol. 30(5) 467–471.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Tables and Figures  1. A Matter of Life and Death       Economy and Social Conditions: Labor and Hunger        Medicine: Hookworms        Method        The Scholarship on Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Hookworm in Puerto Rico       Chapter Outline  2. Anemia and Autonomy       A “New” Colonial Structure       Bread and Butter Issues       Party Politics       Anemia, Autonomy and the Public Health Administration in Puerto Rico       The Changing Meaning of Professional and Political Autonomy  3. Colonial Interventions on Public Health and the Bifurcation of Puerto Rican Medicine       The Hookworm-Anemia Campaign as Public Health  4. National Physicians and Professional Prestige       Professional Status       Status in Urban and “Threatening” Rural Spaces       Medical Practitioners in the Late Nineteenth Century: One of Many       Municipal Physicians and State Competition: Spain       Licensing and State Control Under Spanish Colonial Authority       Elite Physicians’ Ideas about their Imagined Community (the Nation)       Ideas about the Nation: From Spanish to U.S. colonization       Licensing and State Control under U.S. Colonial Authority       Municipal Physicians and U.S. State Competition: The Public Health Administration       The Asociación Médica de Puerto Rico: Nationalism, Class and Labor       Professional Presentation and Status  5. Race, “Progress” and National Identity       Professionals and Intellectuals among Liberal Elites       Labor as Progress       Land as Tropical Environment       Social Conditions and the Colonial Relationship       Death and Resuscitation in Tropical Medicine        Recapitalizing Elites       The War Waged in the Utuado Clinic       Soiling Land and the Right to Rebel       The Medical Men who Shaped a New Medical Discourse  6. Decolonizing Dominant Narratives       The Public Interest(s)       Colonial Modernity       The Colonial Narrative and The Great Man of Puerto Rican Medical Science       Puerto Rican Physicians: Double Binds and Messy Realities       Tropical Medicine and Global Health        Post- and Neo-Coloniality  Bibliography Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210634420567,"sku":"9789004243705","price":132.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/modern-colonization-by-medical-intervention-u-s-medicine-in-puerto-rico-9789004243705","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}