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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 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 United States enjoyed. Instead, they became centrally implicated in the struggle between labor and capital enforcing the island’s subordination to a colonial modernity and the development of capitalism on the island.

Rural health services --- Medicine --- Medicine, Rural --- Physicians --- Tropical medicine --- Rural medicine --- Rural health --- Health Workforce --- Medical services, Rural --- Rural medical services --- Community health services --- Medical care --- Regional medical programs --- Diseases, Tropical --- Hygiene, Tropical --- Public health, Tropical --- Sanitation, Tropical --- Tropical diseases --- Medical climatology --- Allopathic doctors --- Doctors --- Doctors of medicine --- MDs (Physicians) --- Medical doctors --- Medical profession --- Medical personnel --- Political aspects --- Practice --- Social conditions. --- United States --- Relations