Public health and nation building in the Americas, 1890-1940

Amador, José 1970- (author.).

Summary: "Health of Empire is a transnational history of public health and intellectual thought following the U.S. imperial expansion of 1898. José Amador shows that physicians and intellectuals in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Brazil, and not just itinerant American health officials, defined the political and cultural terms of public health campaigns"--Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780826520227
ISBN: 0826520227
ISBN: 9780826520203
ISBN: 0826520200
ISBN: 9780826520210
ISBN: 0826520219
Physical Description: remote
1 online resource.
Publisher: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2014.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Cautionary tales : narratives of disease, danger, and possibility -- Beyond yellow fever eradication : nation and racial gatekeeping in cuba -- The pursuit of health : colonialism and hookworm eradication in Puerto Rico -- Converging missions : public health bandeiras and rockefeller philanthropy in Brazil -- A turn to culture : public health legacies and transnational academic circuits.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.