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EMPIRE AND ITS PRACTITIONERS: HEALTH, DEVELOPMENT, AND THE U.S. OCCUPATION OF HAITI, 1915-1934

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Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Davidson, Matthew, Thesis advisor (ths): Sheinin, David, Degree committee member (dgc): Dunaway, Finis, Degree committee member (dgc): Wright, Robert, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>In 1915 U.S. Marines invaded Haiti. Driven first by the epidemiological dangers in Haiti, health and medicine was made a central tenet in administering the occupation. Useful for protecting the American Marines from disease, the Service d'Hygiene (the occupation-era Public Health Service) also served a hegemonic purpose. By bringing American biomedicine to sick Haitians, the Service… more
Full Text: EMPIRE AND ITS PRACTITIONERS: HEALTH, DEVELOPMENT, AND THE U.S. OCCUPATION OF HAITI, 1915-1934 A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and …