Health and medicine in the circum-Caribbean, 1800-1968 / edited by Juanita De Barros, Steven Palmer, and David Wright.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

For the benefit of the planters and the benefit of mankind : the struggle to control midwives and obstetrics on St. Croix, Danish West Indies, 1800-1848 / by Niklas Thode Jenson -- Any elderly, sensible, prudent woman? : the practice and practitioners of midwifery during slavery in the British Caribbean / by Tara A. Inniss -- From the plantation to the academy : slavery and the production of Cuban medicine in the nineteenth century / by Steven Palmer -- Race and the authorization of biomedicine in Yucatan, Mexico / by David Sowell -- A benign place of healing? : the contagious diseases hospital and medical discipline in post slavery Barbados / by Denise Challenger -- Tolerating sex : prostitution, gender, and governance in the Dominican Republic, 1880s-1924 / by April J. Mayes --

The politics of professionalization : Puerto Rican physicians during the transition from Spanish to U.S. colonialism / by Nicole Trujillo-Pagan -- Improving the standard of motherhood : infant mortality and the "mothercraft" movement in British Guiana / by Juanita De Barros -- Health in the French Antilles : the impact of the First World War / by Jacques Dumont -- The difficulty of unhooking the hookworm : the Rockefeller Foundation, Grace Schneiders-Howard, and public health care in Suriname in the early twentieth century / by Rosemarijn Hoefte -- Public health and women in Trinidad and Tobago, 1939-1962 / by Debbie McCollin -- "Red marly soil" : a public health history of bauxite mining, disease, and medicalization in Jamaica, 1938 to 1968 / by David McBride.

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