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Medicine on the periphery : public health in the Yucatan, Mexico, 1870-1960 / David Sowell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sowell, David, 1952- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public health--History--Mexico.
- Public health.
- Medical care--History--Mexico.
- Medical care.
- Mexico--History--19th century.
- Mexico.
- Mexico--History--20th century.
- Mexico--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (231 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Medicine on the Periphery traces the development of Yucatán's medical institutions, public health programs, healers, and changing disease environment from the 1870s through 1960. The biomedicalization of Yucatán's public health system is analyzed within the Atlantic medical community and the emerging revolutionary state of central Mexico.
- Contents:
- Public health and the making of modern Yucatán
- Institutionalizing biomedicine
- Medical communities
- Disease and public health campaigns
- Public health and the revolutionary state
- The biomedicalization of Yucatán.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4985-1735-8
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