Public health and the imperial project / Juanita De Barros and Sean Stilwell.

Trenton : Africa World Press, [2016]

x, 262 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : public health and the imperial project / Juanita De Barros and Sean Stilwell -- Quarantine in the Fort Ozama dungeon : the control of prostitution and venereal disease in the Dominican Republic / Rebecca Lord -- Sanitation and civilization : sanitary policy and urban reform in British Guiana, 1890-1920 / Juanita De Barros -- A Caribbean public health crusade : imperial policies, public activism, and Trinidad's 1903 water riot / Laurie Jacklin -- A new 'imperial disease ': the influenza pandemic of 1918-9 and its impact on the British empire / David Killingray -- A different intervention : the international health commission/board of health, sanitation in the British Caribbean, 1914-1930 / Rita Pemberton -- For the children? a preliminary analysis of health-related issues discussed at the 1921 educational conference in Trinidad / Janice Mayers -- Gendered health care : legacies of slavery in health care provision in Barbados over the period 1870-1920 / Pedro Welch.