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| Autor: | Few, Martha, 1964- ( author.) |
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| Título: | For all of humanity : Mesoamerican and colonial medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala / Martha Few. |
| Clasificación LC: |
RA454.G8
F48 2015 |
| Descripción: | x, 292 páginas : llustraciones ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780816531882 (pasta dura) |
| Temas: |
Salud pública -
Guatemala -
Historia -
Siglo 18. Salud pública - Guatemala - Historia - Siglo 19. Medicina - Guatemala - Historia - Siglo 18. Medicina - Guatemala - Historia - Siglo 19. Indígenas de América Central - Medicina - Guatemala. |
| Notas: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (páginas 267-277) e índice. |
| Contenido: | 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. |
| Resumen: | "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. |
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