Books By Juanita De Barros, Steven Palmer, David Wright - Author

Juanita De Barros is an associate professor in the Department of History at McMaster University. Her research concentrates on urban history and the history of public health and health workers in the British Caribbean. She written and co-edited several books and numerous articles on Caribbean history. Most recently, she co-edited (along with Audra Diptee and David Trotman) a collection of essays on recent Caribbean historiography (Beyond Fragmentation: Perspectives on Caribbean History, 2006).

Steven Palmer is Canada Research Chair in History of International Health at the University of Windsor. He has published a number of books and articles on the history of nationalism, education, social policy, medicine and public health in Costa Rica. His book, Launching Global Health: The Caribbean Odyssey of the Rockefeller Foundation, will be published in 2009. He is currently completing research on the politics of Cuban medicine in the age of bacteriology an