Author: Vincent Tothill
Publisher: Paria Publishing Company Limited
ISBN: 9789768054760
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Picture this: San Fernando, Trinidad, 1920. Longing for the tropics, the young medicus Dr. Vincent Tothill signs up with the Colonial Service and comes to southern Trinidad, where he first works in the oilfields, then in the sugar factory, and eventually sets up private practice. With Scottish wit and a subtle feel for the local parlance, he describes the people he meets and the events that mark the highlights of his sojourn. Tothill will make you laugh out loud with his sometimes picaresque adventures, but his diary is also a valuable anthropological and historical document, describing the language and customs of Trinidadians in that period and the shortcomings that of the medical service of the Colonial Government. This book was first published by Blackie & Sons in Scotland and is lavishly illustrated with contemporary photographs, some taken by Dr. Tothill himself, and others added from Paria Publishing's extensive archives.
Trinidad's Doctor's Office
Author: Vincent Tothill
Publisher: Paria Publishing Company Limited
ISBN: 9789768054760
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Picture this: San Fernando, Trinidad, 1920. Longing for the tropics, the young medicus Dr. Vincent Tothill signs up with the Colonial Service and comes to southern Trinidad, where he first works in the oilfields, then in the sugar factory, and eventually sets up private practice. With Scottish wit and a subtle feel for the local parlance, he describes the people he meets and the events that mark the highlights of his sojourn. Tothill will make you laugh out loud with his sometimes picaresque adventures, but his diary is also a valuable anthropological and historical document, describing the language and customs of Trinidadians in that period and the shortcomings that of the medical service of the Colonial Government. This book was first published by Blackie & Sons in Scotland and is lavishly illustrated with contemporary photographs, some taken by Dr. Tothill himself, and others added from Paria Publishing's extensive archives.
Publisher: Paria Publishing Company Limited
ISBN: 9789768054760
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Picture this: San Fernando, Trinidad, 1920. Longing for the tropics, the young medicus Dr. Vincent Tothill signs up with the Colonial Service and comes to southern Trinidad, where he first works in the oilfields, then in the sugar factory, and eventually sets up private practice. With Scottish wit and a subtle feel for the local parlance, he describes the people he meets and the events that mark the highlights of his sojourn. Tothill will make you laugh out loud with his sometimes picaresque adventures, but his diary is also a valuable anthropological and historical document, describing the language and customs of Trinidadians in that period and the shortcomings that of the medical service of the Colonial Government. This book was first published by Blackie & Sons in Scotland and is lavishly illustrated with contemporary photographs, some taken by Dr. Tothill himself, and others added from Paria Publishing's extensive archives.
Doctor's Office, Etc. [Experiences of a Doctor in Trinidad. With Plates.].
Author: Walter Vincent Tothill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Regulation of Religion and the Making of Hinduism in Colonial Trinidad
Author: Alexander Rocklin
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469648725
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
How can religious freedom be granted to people who do not have a religion? While Indian indentured workers in colonial Trinidad practiced cherished rituals, "Hinduism" was not a widespread category in India at the time. On this Caribbean island, people of South Asian descent and African descent came together—under the watchful eyes of the British rulers—to walk on hot coals for fierce goddesses, summon spirits of the dead, or honor Muslim martyrs, practices that challenged colonial norms for religion and race. Drawing deeply on colonial archives, Alexander Rocklin examines the role of the category of religion in the regulation of the lives of Indian laborers struggling for autonomy. Gradually, Indians learned to narrate the origins, similarities, and differences among their fellows' cosmological views, and to define Hindus, Muslims, and Christians as distinct groups. Their goal in doing this work of subaltern comparative religion, as Rocklin puts it, was to avoid criminalization and to have their rituals authorized as legitimate religion—they wanted nothing less than to gain access to the British promise of religious freedom. With the indenture system's end, the culmination of this politics of recognition was the gradual transformation of Hindus' rituals and the reorganization of their lives—they fabricated a "world religion" called Hinduism.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469648725
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
How can religious freedom be granted to people who do not have a religion? While Indian indentured workers in colonial Trinidad practiced cherished rituals, "Hinduism" was not a widespread category in India at the time. On this Caribbean island, people of South Asian descent and African descent came together—under the watchful eyes of the British rulers—to walk on hot coals for fierce goddesses, summon spirits of the dead, or honor Muslim martyrs, practices that challenged colonial norms for religion and race. Drawing deeply on colonial archives, Alexander Rocklin examines the role of the category of religion in the regulation of the lives of Indian laborers struggling for autonomy. Gradually, Indians learned to narrate the origins, similarities, and differences among their fellows' cosmological views, and to define Hindus, Muslims, and Christians as distinct groups. Their goal in doing this work of subaltern comparative religion, as Rocklin puts it, was to avoid criminalization and to have their rituals authorized as legitimate religion—they wanted nothing less than to gain access to the British promise of religious freedom. With the indenture system's end, the culmination of this politics of recognition was the gradual transformation of Hindus' rituals and the reorganization of their lives—they fabricated a "world religion" called Hinduism.
Department of State Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
The official monthly record of United States foreign policy.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
The official monthly record of United States foreign policy.
Doctors beyond Borders
Author: Laurence Monnais
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442629614
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Doctors beyond Borders provides an essential historical perspective on the transnational migration of health care practitioners.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442629614
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Doctors beyond Borders provides an essential historical perspective on the transnational migration of health care practitioners.
Going to Trinidad
Author: Martin J. Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781917895101
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
For more than four decades, between 1969 and 2010, the remote former mining town of Trinidad, Colorado was the unlikely crossroads for approximately six thousand medical pilgrims who came looking for relief from the pain of gender dysphoria. The surgical skill and nonjudgmental compassion of surgeons Stanley Biber and his transgender protege Marci Bowers not only made the phrase "Going to Trinidad" a euphemism for gender confirmation surgery in the worldwide transgender community, but also turned the small outpost near the New Mexico border into what The New York Times once called "the sex-change capital of the world."The full story of that nearly forgotten chapter in gender and medical history has never been told--until now. Award-winning writer Martin J. Smith spent two years researching not only the stories of Trinidad, Biber, and Bowers, but also tracking the lives of many transgender men and women who sought their services. The result is "Going to Trinidad," which focuses on the complicated pre- and post-surgery lives of two Biber patients--Claudine Griggs and Walt Heyer--who experienced very different outcomes. Through them, Smith takes readers deep into the often-mystifying world of gender, genitalia, and sexuality, and chronicles a fascinating segment of the human species that's often misunderstood by those for whom gender remains a mostly binary male-or-female equation.The stories of Trinidad's surgeons and transgender pilgrims provide an important opportunity to better understand the millions of complex individuals whose personal struggle is complicated by today's quicksand of cultural pressures and prejudices. More than six thousand transgender men and women left Trinidad hoping that hormone therapy and surgical relief was the right prescription for their pain. For most it was, but not for all, and their experiences offer important and timely insights for those struggling to understand this sometimes confounding human condition.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781917895101
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
For more than four decades, between 1969 and 2010, the remote former mining town of Trinidad, Colorado was the unlikely crossroads for approximately six thousand medical pilgrims who came looking for relief from the pain of gender dysphoria. The surgical skill and nonjudgmental compassion of surgeons Stanley Biber and his transgender protege Marci Bowers not only made the phrase "Going to Trinidad" a euphemism for gender confirmation surgery in the worldwide transgender community, but also turned the small outpost near the New Mexico border into what The New York Times once called "the sex-change capital of the world."The full story of that nearly forgotten chapter in gender and medical history has never been told--until now. Award-winning writer Martin J. Smith spent two years researching not only the stories of Trinidad, Biber, and Bowers, but also tracking the lives of many transgender men and women who sought their services. The result is "Going to Trinidad," which focuses on the complicated pre- and post-surgery lives of two Biber patients--Claudine Griggs and Walt Heyer--who experienced very different outcomes. Through them, Smith takes readers deep into the often-mystifying world of gender, genitalia, and sexuality, and chronicles a fascinating segment of the human species that's often misunderstood by those for whom gender remains a mostly binary male-or-female equation.The stories of Trinidad's surgeons and transgender pilgrims provide an important opportunity to better understand the millions of complex individuals whose personal struggle is complicated by today's quicksand of cultural pressures and prejudices. More than six thousand transgender men and women left Trinidad hoping that hormone therapy and surgical relief was the right prescription for their pain. For most it was, but not for all, and their experiences offer important and timely insights for those struggling to understand this sometimes confounding human condition.
The Medical Department of the United States Army in World War II.
Author: United States. Army Medical Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Trinidad & Tobago
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
GRAVITY & FIRE
Author: Bill Gourgey
Publisher: Jacked Arts
ISBN: 1370865821
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
From silicon germs to digitized souls, the future is here… Read the first book of the Beverly Hills Book Award Winning Glide Trilogy, a mesmerizing tale of love, loss, and second chances. Set in a future filled with dazzling and perilous inventions, the trilogy has been read more than 6,000,000 times on Wattpad, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly (book 2), and has been queried for a future motion picture. In Gravity & Fire a ruthless tycoon tries to save the world from total ruin, but she encounters an eccentric scientist who shakes her conviction with his innocence and a revolutionary invention. Their secret tryst sets in motion epic events that ripple far into the future until adventuresome teens stumble upon the truth in a dilapidated seaside mansion, where they inadvertently awaken the past and a legacy of war, plague, and miracles.
Publisher: Jacked Arts
ISBN: 1370865821
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
From silicon germs to digitized souls, the future is here… Read the first book of the Beverly Hills Book Award Winning Glide Trilogy, a mesmerizing tale of love, loss, and second chances. Set in a future filled with dazzling and perilous inventions, the trilogy has been read more than 6,000,000 times on Wattpad, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly (book 2), and has been queried for a future motion picture. In Gravity & Fire a ruthless tycoon tries to save the world from total ruin, but she encounters an eccentric scientist who shakes her conviction with his innocence and a revolutionary invention. Their secret tryst sets in motion epic events that ripple far into the future until adventuresome teens stumble upon the truth in a dilapidated seaside mansion, where they inadvertently awaken the past and a legacy of war, plague, and miracles.