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For all of humanity : Mesoamerican and colonial medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala / Martha Few.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Few, Martha, 1964- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public health--Guatemala--History--18th century.
- Public health.
- Public health--Guatemala--History--19th century.
- Medicine--Guatemala--History--18th century.
- Medicine.
- Medicine--Guatemala--History--19th century.
- Indians of Central America--Medicine--Guatemala.
- Indians of Central America.
- Indians of Central America--Medicine.
- History.
- Guatemala.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 292 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2015.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Medicine and colonialism in Enlightenment Guatemala
- Humanitarianism and epidemic death
- Typhus and the landscapes of Maya medicine
- Constructing colonial fetuses
- How to inoculate Indians
- "This marvelous fluid"
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-277) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780816531882
- 0816531889
- 9780816531875
- 0816531870
- OCLC:
- 907272397
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