Missions for science : U.S. technology and medicine in America's African world /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	McBride, David, 1949-
Corporate Author:	Ebook Library
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2002]
Subjects:	Technology transfer > Southern States. Technology transfer > North America. Technology transfer > Liberia. Medical innovations > Southern States. Medical innovations > North America. Medical innovations > Liberia. Biomedical Technology. International Cooperation. Technology Transfer. United States. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Enduring the technology take-off. Machines and plantations : birth of the black belt
Industry on the Isthmus : the Panama Canal Zone
Curing the Caribbean : Haiti through the occupation
Out of the shadows : Liberia before World War II
Encountering the science superpower. Malaria and modernization : the decline of the black belt
Alliances and utopias : Liberia's search for development
Technology of reaction : Haiti and the new dispersal
Conclusion: Science and Hope.