Enlightened immunity : Mexico's experiments with disease prevention in the Age of Reason /

"In eighteenth-century Mexico, outbreaks of typhus and smallpox brought ordinary residents together with administrators, priests, and doctors to restore stability and improve the population's health. This book traces the monumental shifts in preventive medicine and public health measures t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ramírez, Paul F. (Paul Francis) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]
Colección:Stanford scholarship online.
Temas:
1700-1899
Public health > Mexico > History > 18th century.
Public health > Mexico > History > 19th century.
Epidemics > Mexico > History > 18th century.
Epidemics > Mexico > History > 19th century.
Vaccination > Mexico > History > 18th century.
Vaccination > Mexico > History > 19th century.
Public Health > history
Santé publique > Mexique > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Santé publique > Mexique > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Vaccination > Mexique > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Vaccination > Mexique > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Épidémies > Mexique > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Épidémies > Mexique > Histoire > 19e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico
Epidemics
Public health
Vaccination
Mexico
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Minerva's children
  • Devotions of affliction : the dramaturgy of colonial epidemics
  • Periodically healthy : the nature of medicine and the fashion of science
  • "Massacre of the innocents" : preventing smallpox, 1796-1798
  • The gift of immunity : domesticating techniques
  • Republics of vaccinators : everyday expertise through the insurgency
  • Medicine's malcontents : an oral history.

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