Disease in the history of modern Latin America : from malaria to AIDS / edited by Diego Armus.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Armus, Diego.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social medicine--Latin America.

Social medicine.

Diseases--Latin America--History.

Diseases.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Edited volume that takes a non-traditional approach to the history of medicine in Latin America, and emphasizes the cultural and social construction of disease.

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 Obregon

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-06429-4

9786613064295

0-8223-8434-5

OCLC:

191222193