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Unequal cures : public health and political change in Bolivia, 1900-1950 / Ann Zulawski.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zulawski, Ann.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public health--Bolivia.
- Public health.
- Medical care--Bolivia.
- Medical care.
- Bolivia--Social conditions.
- Bolivia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- First systematic medical history of Bolivia for the 20th century, viewing political change from the perspective of public health.
- Contents:
- Hygiene and the "Indian problem": ethnicity and medicine in the early twentieth century
- The medical crisis of the Chaco war
- The Rockefeller foundation in Bolivia, 1932-1952
- Women and public health, 1920s-1940s
- Mental illness and democracy: the Manicomio Pacheco, 1935-1950.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-242) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612923388
- 9781282923386
- 1282923382
- 9780822390022
- 0822390027
- OCLC:
- 220950578
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