List of Tables and Figures1. A Matter of Life and DeathEconomy and Social Conditions: Labor and Hunger Medicine: Hookworms Method The Scholarship on Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Hookworm in Puerto RicoChapter Outline2. Anemia and AutonomyA "New" Colonial StructureBread and Butter IssuesParty PoliticsAnemia, Autonomy and the Public Health Administration in Puerto RicoThe Changing Meaning of Professional and Political Autonomy3. Colonial Interventions on Public Health and the Bifurcation of Puerto Rican MedicineThe Hookworm-Anemia Campaign as Public Health4. National Physicians and Professional PrestigeProfessional StatusStatus in Urban and "Threatening" Rural SpacesMedical Practitioners in the Late Nineteenth Century: One of ManyMunicipal Physicians and State Competition: SpainLicensing and State Control Under Spanish Colonial AuthorityElite Physicians' Ideas about their Imagined Community (the Nation)Ideas about the Nation: From Spanish to U.S. colonizationLicensing and State Control under U.S.

Colonial AuthorityMunicipal Physicians and U.S. State Competition: The Public Health AdministrationThe Asociación Médica de Puerto Rico: Nationalism, Class and LaborProfessional Presentation and Status5. Race, "Progress" and National IdentityProfessionals and Intellectuals among Liberal ElitesLabor as ProgressLand as Tropical EnvironmentSocial Conditions and the Colonial RelationshipDeath and Resuscitation in Tropical Medicine Recapitalizing ElitesThe War Waged in the Utuado ClinicSoiling Land and the Right to RebelThe Medical Men who Shaped a New Medical Discourse6. Decolonizing Dominant NarrativesThe Public Interest(s)Colonial ModernityThe Colonial Narrative and The Great Man of Puerto Rican Medical SciencePuerto Rican Physicians: Double Binds and Messy RealitiesTropical Medicine and Global Health Post- and Neo-ColonialityBibliographyIndex.