Curing the ills of Central America: the United Fruit Company´s Medical Department and corporate America´s mission to civilize (1900-1940)

It analyzes the literature by the Medical Department of the United Fruit Company aiming at adding to the rapidly expanding body of work on the Company and its relationship with its Latin Americans laborers by focusing on UFCo´s sense of mission in Central America and how the cultural assumptions this mission entailed affected the Company's medical program. Specifically it uses the Company's self-defined mission to civilize as an interpretative framework for understanding the Medical Department´s anti-malarial campaign.(AU)