Modern colonization by medical intervention : : U.S. medicine in Puerto Rico / / by Nicole Truijillo-Pagán.

• Superior document: Studies in critical social sciences, volume 58
• Author: Trujillo-Pagan, Nicole.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden [The Netherlands] : : Brill,, 2013.
• שנת הוצאה לאור: 2013
• שפה: English
• סדרה: Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 58.
• תיאור פיזי: 1 online resource (260 p.)
• הערות: Description based upon print version of record.

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...