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The Plantation Complex of Doctors in Late Colonial Havana
| The paper explores the different ways that the sugar plantation, and its management and use of laboring bodies, informed the practices and scientific projects of Cuban medical practitioners in the second half of the 19th century. Most doctors, often themselves children of planter families, practiced plantation medicine at some point in their careers.
Using the case of Juan Santos Fernandez, a leading creole practitioner in Havana from 1875-1910, the paper shows how plantation managerial practices, and attributes of plantation medicine, informed the maturing medical universe of the capital city.
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