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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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.
Subjects:
Indiens d'Amerique > Guatemala > Medecine.
Épidemies > prevention et contrôle.
Public health.
Medicine.
Indians of Central America > Medicine.
HISTORY > General.
Medecine > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Medecine > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Sante publique > Guatemala > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Sante publique > Guatemala > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Medecine > Guatemala > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Medecine > Guatemala > Histoire > 19e siecle.
History, 19th Century
History, 18th Century
Indians, Central American > history
Colonialism > history
Public Health Practice > history
Epidemics > prevention & control
Medicine > History > 18th century.
Public health > Guatemala > History > 18th century.
Public health > Guatemala > History > 19th century.
Medicine > Guatemala > History > 18th century.
Medicine > Guatemala > History > 19th century.
Indians of Central America > Medicine > Guatemala.
Guatemala.
Central America
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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