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Disease in the History of Modern Latin America : From Malaria to AIDS /
Challenging traditional approaches to medical history, Disease in the History of Modern Latin America advances understandings of disease as a social and cultural construction in Latin America. This innovative collection provides a vivid look at the latest research in the cultural history of medicine...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2003.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Disease in the historiography of modern Latin America / Diego Armus
- "The only serious terror in these regions" : malaria control in the Brazilian Amazon / Nancy Leys Stepan
- An imaginary plague in turn-of-the-century Buenos Aires : hysteria, discipline, and languages of the body / Gabriela Nouzeilles
- Tropical medicine in Brazil : the case of chagas' disease / Marilia Coutinho
- Tango, gender, and tuberculosis in Buenos Aires, 1900-1940 / Diego Armus
- The state, physicians, and leprosy in modern Colombia / Diana Obregón
- Revolution, the scatological way : the Rockefeller Foundation's hookworm campaign in 1920s Mexico / Anne-Emanuelle Birn
- Between risk and confession : state and popular perspectives of syphilis infection in revolutionary Mexico / Katherine Elaine Bliss
- Dying of sadness : hospitalism and child welfare in Mexico City, 1920-1940 / Ann S. Blum
- Mental illness and democracy in Bolivia : the Manicomio Pacheco, 1935-1950 / Ann Zulawski
- Stigma and blame during an epidemic : cholera in Peru, 1991 / Marcos Cueto
- Nation, science, and sex : AIDS and the new Brazilian sexuality / Patrick Larvie.