Download or read book Medicine and International Relations in the Caribbean written by Rodrigo Fernos and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicine has long framed race relations in the Caribbean-that basin where African and European cultures have met from the beginning of the Colonial Period to the twentieth century. Whether Sir Hans Sloane, founder of the British Museum and President of the Royal Society of London, who as a physician wrote about African medical beliefs and practices, or Dr. Leonard Wood, military physician who served as military governor to Cuba, medicine and its practitioners have played a key role in the perception of the African Other. The book is a collection of essays treating the subject from various points of views. While it may perhaps not surprise the reader that colonial physicians often failed to acknowledge the same failings in their own Western medicine as that criticized of African practices, the medical view found later in the period lacked that biting racism of an earlier era.
Download or read book Health and Medicine in the circum Caribbean 1800 1968 written by Juanita De Barros and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health and medicine in colonial environments is one of the newest areas in the history of medicine, but one in which the Caribbean is conspicuously absent. Yet the complex and fascinating history of the Caribbean, borne of the ways European colonialism combined with slavery, indentureship, migrant labour and plantation agriculture, led to the emergence of new social and cultural forms which are especially evident the area of health and medicine. The history of medical care in the Caribbean is also a history of the transfer of cultural practices from Africa and Asia, the process of creolization in the African and Asian diasporas, the perseverance of indigenous and popular medicine, and the emergence of distinct forms of western medical professionalism, science, and practice. This collection, which covers the French, Hispanic, Dutch, and British Caribbean, explores the cultural and social domains of medical experience and considers the dynamics and tensions of power. The chapters emphasize contestations over forms of medicalization and the controls of public health and address the politics of professionalization, not simply as an expression of colonial power but also of the power of a local elite against colonial or neo-colonial control. They pay particular attention to the significance of race and gender, focusing on such topics as conflicts over medical professionalization, control of women’s bodies and childbirth, and competition between ‘European’ and ‘Indigenous’ healers and healing practices. Employing a broad range of subjects and methodological approaches, this collection constitutes the first edited volume on the history of health and medicine in the circum-Caribbean region and is therefore required reading for anyone interested in the history of colonial and post-colonial medicine.
Download or read book Public Health and Beyond in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Sherri L. Porcelain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Health and Beyond in Latin America and the Caribbean: Reflections from the Field explores the diverse and complex public health landscape, from global to regional to local, by considering historical and socio-cultural factors to contextualize the ongoing public health crisis. Drawing on four decades of field experience, research, and teaching, Sherri L. Porcelain uses case studies to offer a realistic view of the public heath struggle in Latin America and the Caribbean. Using specific countries as regional examples, the book shows how population health has been inextricably linked to political, economic, social, cultural, ethical, ecological, environmental, and technological factors. Chapters in this book will examine the history of public health issues associated with international development, globalization and the international political economy, disasters, diplomacy, and security studies coupled with the changing role of key actors driving the global and regional agendas. The final chapter examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and what it means for the future of public health. This book is recommended for undergraduate students interested in the history of Latin America and the Caribbean as well as others concerned with global and regional population health challenges.
Download or read book Papers Delivered at the Conference The Caribbean its health problems written by Alva Curtis Wilgus and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each vol. has also a distinctive title: v.1, 1950, The Caribbean at mid-century.- v.2, 1951, The Caribbean: peoples, problems, and prospects.- v.3, 1952, The Caribbean: contemporary trends.- v.4, 1953, The Caribbean, its economy.- v.5, 1954, The Caribbean, its culture.- v.6, 1955, The Caribbean, its political problems.- v.7, 1956, The Caribbean, contemporary international relations.- v.8, 1957, The Caribbean: British, Dutch, French, United States.- v.9, 1958, The Caribbean, natural resources.- v.10, 1959, The Caribbean, contemporary education.- v.11, 1960, The Caribbean, the Central American area.- v.12, 1961, The Caribbean, contemporary Colombia.- v.13, 1962, The Caribbean, Venezuelan development.- v.14, 1963, The Caribbean: Mexico today.- v.15, 1964, The Caribbean: its health problem.- v.16, The Caribbean: current United States relations.- v.17, 1966, The Caribbean: its hemispheric role.
Download or read book Medicine and Public Health in Latin America written by Marcos Cueto and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a clear, broad, and provocative synthesis of the history of Latin American medicine.
Download or read book Global Health and International Relations written by Colin McInnes and published by Polity. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book encourages readers to step back from problem-solving to ask how global health is being problematized in the first place, why certain agendas and issue areas are prioritised, and what determines the potential solutions put forth to address them.
Download or read book Health and Medicine in the Circum Caribbean 1800 1968 written by Juanita De Barros and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in the study of history of colonial and post-colonial medicine, Health and Medicine in the circum-Carribean, 1800-1968 collects essays on the history of medical policy and practices from throughout the French, British, Hispanic, Dutch, and Danish Caribbean.
Download or read book Global Health and International Relations written by Colin McInnes and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long separation of health and International Relations, as distinct academic fields and policy arenas, has now dramatically changed. Health, concerned with the body, mind and spirit, has traditionally focused on disease and infirmity, whilst International Relations has been dominated by concerns of war, peace and security. Since the 1990s, however, the two fields have increasingly overlapped. How can we explain this shift and what are the implications for the future development of both fields? Colin McInnes and Kelley Lee examine four key intersections between health and International Relations today - foreign policy and health diplomacy, health and the global political economy, global health governance and global health security. The explosion of interest in these subjects has, in large part, been due to "real world" concerns - disease outbreaks, antibiotic resistance, counterfeit drugs and other risks to human health amid the spread of globalisation. Yet the authors contend that it is also important to understand how global health has been socially constructed, shaped in theory and practice by particular interests and normative frameworks. This groundbreaking book encourages readers to step back from problem-solving to ask how global health is being problematized in the first place, why certain agendas and issue areas are prioritised, and what determines the potential solutions put forth to address them? The palpable struggle to better understand the health risks facing a globalized world, and to strengthen collective action to deal with them effectively, begins - they argue - with a more reflexive and critical approach to this rapidly emerging subject.
Download or read book The Restless Caribbean written by Richard Millett and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1979 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Caribbean Medical Schools written by Asad Raz̤ā and published by . This book was released on 2008-12-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guide to Medical Schools located in the Caribbean that lead to licensure in the United States.
Download or read book Cuban Medical Internationalism written by J. Kirk and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-06-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While public health is important for revolutionary Cuba, providing medical services to the developing world is also a priority: 38,000 medical staff are engaged abroad; the largest medical school in the world (ELAM) has an enrollment of over 8,000 students from the Third World; and since 2004 over 1.3 million in Latin America and the Caribbean have had their eyesight restored. How has this small nation of 11.3 million people managed to save more lives in the developing world than all of the G-8 countries together? And what are its motives? This book, the result of four years of research in Cuba, provides an updated analysis of this extraordinary record.
Download or read book Documents on International Relations in the Caribbean written by Roy Preiswerk and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compilation of articles and texts of statements, trade agreements, treaties, legislation and other documents relating to international relations in the Caribbean - covers economic relations (including with the EC, the Commonwealth, etc.), international cooperation, economic integration, the legal status of dependent territories, defence, foreign armed forces, etc.
Download or read book The U S and the Caribbean in the New Millennium written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Launching Global Health written by Steven Paul Palmer and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at the Rockefeller Foundation's earliest ventures in international health
Download or read book The United States and the Caribbean written by Anthony P. Maingot and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides the first comprehensive assessment of post-Cold War US-Caribbean relations. Focusing on Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Trinidad-Tobago, the book looks at the political history of the region during the Cold War years, the region's current political economy, international security, and issues of migration and crime. Spanning the Caribbean's linguistic and cultural sub regions (Spanish, French, English, and Dutch) it calls attention to the achievements, setbacks, and concerns that are common to the region. The United States and the Caribbean will be of interest to students and scholars of economics, geography and politics and international relations in general.
Download or read book National Institutes of Health Annual Report of International Activities written by John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Global Health Diplomacy written by Ilona Kickbusch and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-09 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world’s problems are indeed world problems: social and environmental crises, global trade and politics, and major epidemics are making public health a pressing global concern. From this constantly changing scenario, global health diplomacy has evolved, at the intersection of public health, international relations, law, economics, and management—a new discipline with transformative potential. Global Health Diplomacy situates this concept firmly within the human rights dialogue and provides a solid framework for understanding global health issues and their negotiation. This up-to-the-minute guide sets out defining principles and the current agenda of the field, and examines key relationships such as between trade and health diplomacy, and between global health and environmental issues. The processes of global governance are detailed as the UN, WHO, and other multinational actors work to address health inequalities among the world’s peoples. And to ensure maximum usefulness, the text includes plentiful examples, discussion questions, reading lists, and a glossary. Featured topics include: The legal basis of global health agreements and negotiations. Global public goods as a foundation for global health diplomacy. Global health: a human security perspective. Health issues and foreign policy at the UN. National strategies for global health. South-south cooperation and other new models of development. A volume of immediate utility with a potent vision for the future, Global Health Diplomacy is an essential text for public health experts and diplomats as well as schools of public health and international affairs.
