David Sowell

Medicine on the Periphery

Public Health in Yucatán, Mexico, 1870-1960

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 530g
• ISBN-13: 9781498517348
• ISBN-10: 149851734X
• Artikelnr.: 43678739

Autorenporträt

David Sowell is professor of history at Juniata College and teaches courses on Latin America, international studies, and the history of medicine.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Public Health and the Making of Modern Yucatán
Chapter 2: Institutionalizing Biomedicine
Chapter 3: Medical Communities
Chapter 4: Disease and Public Health Campaigns
Chapter 5: Public Health and the Revolutionary State
Chapter 6: The Biomedicalization of Yucatán