Launching global health : the Caribbean odyssey of the Rockefeller Foundation / Steven Palmer.

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2010], ©2010.

xi, 301 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Migrant clinics and hookworm science : the peripheral origins of international health, 1840-1914 -- Launching global health -- Local material : social and political character of the missions -- The intensive method -- Laboratories of Creole modernity (or, The demon that turned into worms) -- Many missions.