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Title Missionaries of science : the Rockefeller Foundation and Latin America / edited by Marcos Cueto
Published Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, ©1994

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 171 pages)
Series Philanthropic studies
Philanthropic studies.
Contents Visions of science and development: the Rockefeller Foundation's Latin American surveys of the 1920s / Marcos Cueto -- Nationalism and public health: the convergence of Rockefeller Foundation technique and Brazilian federal authority during the time of yellow fever, 1925-1930 / Steven C. Williams -- The Rockefeller Foundation in revolutionary Mexico: yellow fever in Yucatan and Veracruz / Armando Solorzano -- Exporting American agriculture: the Rockefeller Foundation in Mexico, 1943-1953 / Deborah Fitzgerald -- The Rockefeller Foundation's Mexican agricultural project: a cross-cultural encounter, 1943-1949 / Joseph Cotter -- The Rockefeller Foundation's medical policy and scientific research in Latin America: the case of physiology / Marcos Cueto -- The Rockefeller Foundation and the emergence of genetics in Brazil, 1943-1960 / Thomas F. Glick
Summary "Concerns impact of American philanthropy on public health, agriculture, and science in Latin America and relations with State authority from 1920s-60s, with particular attention to Brazil and Mexico"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57. http://www.loc.gov/hlas
Analysis Medicine Research International cooperation Latin America
Medicine Research International cooperation United States
Research International cooperation Latin America
Research International cooperation United States
Rockefeller Foundation
Science Social aspects Latin America
Social medicine Latin America
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Rockefeller Foundation
SUBJECT Rockefeller Foundation
Rockefeller Foundation fast
Subject Science -- Social aspects -- Latin America
Social medicine -- Latin America
Research -- Latin America -- International cooperation
Research -- United States -- International cooperation
Medicine -- Research -- Latin America -- International cooperation
Medicine -- Research -- United States -- International cooperation
SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
Medicine -- Research -- International cooperation
Research -- International cooperation
Science -- Social aspects
Social medicine
Gezondheidszorg.
Rockefeller Foundation.
Latin America
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Cueto, Marcos
ISBN 0585201935
9780585201931
1282075853
9781282075856
0253113075
9780253113078
9786612075858
6612075856