Rodrigo Fernós

Medicine and International Relations in the Caribbean: Some Historical Variants

iUniverse, Inc, 2006, 278 pp.

ISBN 978-0595382392

Part I

HISTORIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS

Ch a p t e r 1 Paranoia in the Rhetoric of Academia: Tropical Diseases and the Rockefeller Foundation in Latin

America 

Ch a p t e r 2 On the Difference between ‘Anemia’ and ‘Hookworm’ and the Difference it Makes: A Historiographical Review of Science Histories in

Puerto Rico 

Ch a p t e r 3 State-formation and Emancipation in Cuba and St. Domingue: A Historiographical Comparison  

Part II

PERIPHERY-METROPOLIS RELATIONS

Ch a p t e r 4Toward an Indirect Colonial Encounter: Robert Jackson and the Failed British Occupation of St. Domingue, 1793-1798 

 Ch a p t e r 5 On the Colonial Encounter of Medical Systems and the Image of Africa: Sir Hans Sloane, Edward Long, and Slaves in British Jamaica  

Ch a p t e r 6 Three Variants of (Medical) Race Relations in Jamaica: Sir Hans Sloane, Edward Long, and Dr. James Thomson 

Ch a p t e r 7 The Antipodes of Tropical Medicine: Bailey K. Ashford, Patrick Mansonand the Colonial Experiment  

Ch a p t e r 8 The Relative Absence of Racism in U.S. Colonial Policy towards Cuba, 1898-1902