Disease in the History of Modern Latin America : From Malaria to AIDS /

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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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Other Authors: Armus, Diego (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Lateinamerika
Amerique latine > Politique sociale > Histoire.
Maladies > Amerique latine > Histoire.
Medecine sociale > Amerique latine.
Ziekten.
Sozialmedizin
Social medicine.
Diseases.
MEDICAL > History.
MEDICAL > Health Risk Assessment.
MEDICAL > Epidemiology.
44.01 history of medicine.
Medecine sociale.
Communicable Disease Control > history
Social Medicine
Diseases > Latin America > History.
Social medicine > Latin America.
Latin America.
Amerique latine.
Latin America
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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