Modern Colonization By Medical Intervention (studies In Critical Social Sciences)
by Nicole Trujillo-Pagán /
2013 / English / PDF
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Modern Colonization by Medical Intervention
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.
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 breakingand damningaccount of the way
that seemingly humanitarian efforts were used to oppress a
subject population and maintain colonial rule.
What emerges is a ground breakingand damningaccount of the way
that seemingly humanitarian efforts were used to oppress a
subject population and maintain colonial rule.