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For All of Humanity : Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala /

"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Few, Martha, 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"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, government officials, and ordinary people engaged in efforts to prevent and control epidemic disease"--Provided by publisher.
Physical Description:1 online resource (303 pages).
ISBN:9780816532278