For all of humanity : Mesoamerican and colonial medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala /

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"For All of Humanity examines the first public health campaigns in Guatemala, southern Mexico, and Central America in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It reconstructs a rich and complex picture of the ways colonial doctors, surgeons, Indigenous healers, midwives, priests, governme...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Few, Martha, 1964- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2015.
Temas:
1700-1899
Indians of Central America > Medicine > Guatemala.
Medicine > Guatemala > History > 19th century.
Medicine > Guatemala > History > 18th century.
Public health > Guatemala > History > 19th century.
Public health > Guatemala > History > 18th century.
Medicine > History > 18th century.
Epidemics > prevention & control
Public Health Practice > history
Colonialism > history
Indians, Central American > history
History, 18th Century
History, 19th Century
Médecine > Guatemala > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Médecine > Guatemala > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Santé publique > Guatemala > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Santé publique > Guatemala > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > General.
Indians of Central America > Medicine
Medicine
Public health
Épidémies > prévention et contrôle.
Indiens d'Amérique > Guatemala > Médecine.
Central America
Guatemala
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : medicine, colonialism, and the enlightenment
  • Epidemic death and signs of life
  • Typhus and the landscapes of Maya medicine
  • Constructing colonial fetuses
  • How to inoculate Indians
  • "This marvelous fluid"
  • Colonial humanitarianism and disease.

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