Download or read book Annual Report on British Guiana written by Great Britain. Colonial Office and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guyana from Slavery to the Present written by Ramesh Gampat and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is common knowledge that slavery and indenture were characterized by long hours of physical labor, restriction of movement and other basic human freedoms, and severe punishment for violations of draconian labor laws. Less well known is the fact that nutrition was very deficient and a range of infectious diseases maimed, debilitated and killed on a large scale. In trying to narrow the knowledge gap with respect to Guyana, Ramesh Gampat shows that extremely poor sanitary conditions, awful hygiene and malnutrition hastened widespread infections and created a vicious cycle. The British protected its own soldiers, officials and colonists by establishing a medical enclave that lasted until Emancipation in 1838. Former slaves were then quarantined to neglected and decaying villages and Indians to plantations. Concern with health conditions appeared only during periods of epidemics and even then it was essentially for the protection of Europeans. Colonial medicine opened the way for stereotyping, labeling, racialization of disease, neutralization of potential leaders in the struggle for justice, and crystallization of the view that Europeans were superior to Blacks and Indians. Shorter stature and shorter life expectancy are good indications that slaves and indentured immigrants fared considerably less well than Europeans. Several infectious diseases sickened and fell Blacks and Indians, including malaria and undefined fevers, pneumonia and bronchitis, diarrhea and enteritis, tuberculosis, pneumonia and hookworm. The conquest of malaria in the early 1950s accelerated the epidemiological transition from communicable to chronic noncommunicable diseases, and today NCDs account for some three-quarters of all deaths in Guyana. Malaria has reemerged, fueled by a gold boom that consumes huge amounts of mercury. The potentially adverse public health consequences of this relatively new dynamic, the combined trio, have been neglected.
Download or read book Annual Report for the Year written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book BLS Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Labor Law and Practice in Guyana written by United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General study of Guyana, with particular reference to work matters and designed as a guide for u.s. Businessmen who may be employing local workers in the country - covers economic implications and political aspects, the government structure, cultural factors, human resources, labour administration, labour relations, etc., and comments on labour legislation and employment policy on working conditions, social security, etc. Statistical tables and bibliography.
Download or read book Reproducing the British Caribbean written by Juanita De Barros and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-08-04 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book traces the history of ideas and policymaking concerning population growth and infant and maternal welfare in Caribbean colonies wrestling with the aftermath of slavery. Focusing on Jamaica, Guyana, and Barbados from the nineteenth century through the 1930s, when violent labor protests swept the region, Juanita De Barros takes a comparative approach in analyzing the struggles among former slaves and masters attempting to determine the course of their societies after emancipation. Invested in the success of the "great experiment" of slave emancipation, colonial officials developed new social welfare and health policies. Concerns about the health and size of ex-slave populations were expressed throughout the colonial world during this period. In the Caribbean, an emergent black middle class, rapidly increasing immigration, and new attitudes toward medicine and society were crucial factors. While hemispheric and diasporic trends influenced the new policies, De Barros shows that local physicians, philanthropists, midwives, and the impoverished mothers who were the targets of this official concern helped shape and implement efforts to ensure the health and reproduction of Caribbean populations in the decades before independence.
Download or read book Trade Union Development and Industrial Relations in the British West Indies written by William H. Knowles and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1959 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Bibliography of Plant Disease Investigations in the Commonwealth Caribbean 1880 1980 written by Chelston W. D. Brathwaite and published by IICA. This book was released on 1981 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Director of the Mint written by United States. Bureau of the Mint and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 322 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 Index catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General s Office United States Army written by Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Miscellaneous Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book List of Serials Currently Received in the Library of the United States Department of Agriculture as of July 1 1957 written by United States. Department of Agriculture. Library and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Index catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon general s Office United States Army written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Area Handbook for Guyana written by Johnson Research Associates and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General study of Guyana - covers historical and geographical aspects, demographic aspects and social structures, labour force, living conditions, education, cultural factors, religion, the system of government, foreign policy, the economic structure, industry, agriculture, national level defence, labour relations, trade, the administration of justice, etc., and includes a glossary of guyanan terms. ILO mentioned. Bibliography pp. 351 to 367 and statistical tables.
