Medicine and Nation Building in the Americas, 1890-1940 - Jose Amador - Bog

As medical science progressed through the nineteenth century, the US was at the forefront of public health initiatives across the Americas. This wasn't a purely altruistic enterprise, however, as Jose Amador reveals in Medicine and Nation Building in the Americas, 1890-1940. Rather, these efforts almost served as a precursor to modern American interventionism.