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

Publication Info.	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2002]
	©2002

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Description	1 online resource (viii, 308 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-300) and index.
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.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	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.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Government & Business.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Economic Development.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Business Development.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Structural Adjustment.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- General.
	Medical innovations. (OCoLC)fst01014181
	Technology transfer. (OCoLC)fst01145295
	Liberia. (OCoLC)fst01205331
	North America. (OCoLC)fst01242475
	Southern States. (OCoLC)fst01244550
Indexed Term	Samfundsvidenskab Økonomi.
Other Form:	Print version: McBride, David, 1949- Missions for science. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2002 0813530679 (DLC) 2001048790 (OCoLC)48241337
ISBN	1417502401 (electronic bk.)
	9781417502400 (electronic bk.)

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