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Epidemias en Puerto Rico: Desde la Viruela Hasta el COVID-19
Los efectos y complicaciones que el COVID-19 desarrolló en Puerto Rico motivaron al historiador Luis Caldera Ortiz a escribir y publicar este libro, donde se recuentan los diversos episodios epidémicos que han tenido lugar en la Isla. A su vez, se presenta y se actualiza la bibliografía relacionada a la historia de la medicina y de los cuidados de la salud en Puerto Rico.
The Puerto Rican Syndrome
During the 1950's, US Army medical officers noted a puzzling new syndrome that contemporary psychiatry could not explain. They reported that Puerto Rican soldiers under stress behaved in a very peculiar manner, exhibiting a theatrical form of pseudo-epilepsy. Startled physicians observed frightened and disoriented patients foaming at the mouth, screaming, biting, kicking, shaking in seizures, and fainting. This unusual set of symptoms was designated "Puerto Rican Syndrome." Patricia Gherovici thoroughly examines the allegedly, uniquely Puerto Rican Syndrome in the contemporary world, its social and cultural implications for the growing Hispanic population in the US and the US as a whole.
Modern Colonization by Medical Intervention: U. S. Medicine in Puerto Rico
This volume details how rural areas suffered the ravages of social dislocation, unemployment and hunger. The colonial administration’s hookworm campaign involved many Puerto Rican physicians in complex struggles with other elites, rural peasants and U.S. colonial administrators for political legitimacy. Puerto Rican physicians did not gain the professional autonomy their counterparts in the U.S. enjoyed. Instead, they became implicated in the struggle between labor and capital enforcing the island’s subordination to a capitalist colonial modernity. What emerges is a ground breaking and damning account of the way that seemingly humanitarian efforts were used to oppress a subject population and maintain colonial rule.
Chronic Diseases and Medication-Adherence Behaviors
This book presents scientific literature on treatment adherence and empirical research, as well as factors that influence it, both in Anglo-Saxon culture and Iberoamerican countries. This work summarizes the updating of analysis and research works carried out by a group of researchers, composed by related psychologists and health professionals from eight Iberoamerican countries: Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Spain, United States of America, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Venezuela. It also addresses the challenges to antiretroviral adherence as well as the role of health beliefs, social support, and gender role in non-adherent men living with HIV in Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico: A National History
Puerto Rico: A National History by Jorell Meléndez-Badillo is an extensive chronicle of Puerto Rico, focusing on its national and political history from the time of the indigenous peoples through Spanish colonization and American occupation to the present day and even touching on the author's perspective of the future. The book begins by exploring the history and culture of the indigenous peoples of Puerto Rico, setting the stage for the events that follow. Then it explores Spanish colonization, delving into many incidents of hardship and challenges that Puerto Rice faced. The author transitions to American occupation and explores the many attempts of Puerto Rico to gain its independence.
Reproducing Empire : Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico
From science to public policy, the "culture of poverty" to overpopulation, feminism to Puerto Rican nationalism, this book uncovers the persistence of concerns about motherhood, prostitution, and family in shaping the beliefs and practices of virtually every player in the twentieth-century drama of Puerto Rican colonialism. Reproducing Empire suggests that interventionist discourses of rescue, family, and sexuality fueled U.S. imperial projects and organized American colonialism. Through the politics, biology, and medicine of eugenics, prostitution, and birth control, the United States has justified its presence in the territory's politics and society.
Puerto Rico : what everyone needs to know
Puerto Rico, acquired by the United States from Spain in 1898, has a peculiar status among Latin American and Caribbean countries. Its commonwealth status has been hotly debated since its establishment, and the pervasive presence of US power in the island's military, political, economic, and educational institutions is a source of constant tension. Despite their ongoing colonial dilemma, Puerto Ricans display a strong national identity and pride in their rich culture and history.
The Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration : New Deal Public Works, Modernization, and Colonial Reform
Designed by Puerto Rican engineers and built by Puerto Rican workers, PRRA public works projects made concrete contributions to the physical security of millions of Puerto Ricans through the construction of hurricane-proof houses, schools, hospitals, roads, sewers, waterworks, and rural electrification networks. These projects not only made lasting contributions to local social and economic life, they also had a transformative effect on Puerto Rican politics during the 1940s and the meaning of U.S. citizenship for Puerto Ricans in the twentieth century and beyond.
Sponsored Identities
Arlene Davila focuses on the Institute for Puerto Rican Culture and on popular festival organizers to illuminate contestations over appropriate representations of culture in the increasingly mass-mediated context of contemporary Puerto Rico. She examines the creation of an essentialist view of nationhood based on a peasant culture and a "unifying" Hispanic heritage, and the ways in which grassroots organizations challenge and reconfigure definitions of national identity through their own activities and representations. Davila illuminates the prospects for cultural identities in an increasingly transnational context by showing the growth of cultural nationalism to be intrinsically connected to forms of political action directed to the realm of culture and cultural politics.
Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico
Silencing Race provides a historical analysis of the construction of silences surrounding issues of racial inequality, violence, and discrimination in Puerto Rico. Examining the ongoing racialization of Puerto Rican workers, it explores the 'class-making' of race.
The Drug Company Next Door
In Puerto Rico, the pharmaceutical industry is the backbone of the island's economy: in one small town alone, there are over a dozen drug factories representing five multinationals, the highest concentration per capita of such factories in the world. The Drug Company Next Door unites the concerns of critical medical anthropology with those of political ecology, investigating the multi-faceted role of pharmaceutical corporations as polluters, economic providers, and social actors. The Drug Company Next Door puts a human face on a growing set of problems for communities around the world. Accessible and engaging, the book encourages readers to think critically about the role of corporations in everyday life, health, and culture.
