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Medicine and Nation Building in the Americas, 1890-1940
Jose Amador
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Description for Medicine and Nation Building in the Americas, 1890-1940
Paperback. In the history of US public health initiatives, a sign of interventionist policies to come Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1K; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; JPS; MBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 15. Weight in Grams: 467.
As medical science progressed through the nineteenth century, the United States was at the forefront of public health initiatives across the Americas. Dreadful sanitary conditions were relieved, lives were saved, and health care developed into a formidable institution throughout Latin America as doctors and bureaucrats from the United States flexed their scientific muscle. This wasn't a purely altruistic enterprise, however, as Jose Amador reveals in Medicine and Nation Building in the Americas, 1890-1940. Rather, these efforts almost served as a precursor to modern American interventionism. For places like Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Brazil, these initiatives were especially invasive.
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As medical science progressed through the nineteenth century, the United States was at the forefront of public health initiatives across the Americas. Dreadful sanitary conditions were relieved, lives were saved, and health care developed into a formidable institution throughout Latin America as doctors and bureaucrats from the United States flexed their scientific muscle. This wasn't a purely altruistic enterprise, however, as Jose Amador reveals in Medicine and Nation Building in the Americas, 1890-1940. Rather, these efforts almost served as a precursor to modern American interventionism. For places like Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Brazil, these initiatives were especially invasive.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Tennessee, United States
ISBN
9780826520210
SKU
V9780826520210
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About Jose Amador
Jose Amador is Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies at Miami University of Ohio.
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