For all of humanity Mesoamerican and colonial medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala

"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, governme...

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1. Verfasser: Few, Martha (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Tucson Univ. of Arizona Press 2015
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Zusammenfassung:"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
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction : medicine, colonialism, and the enlightenment -- Epidemic death and signs of life -- Typhus and the landscapes of Maya medicine -- Constructing colonial fetuses -- How to inoculate indians -- "This marvelous fluid" -- Colonial humanitarianism and disease
Beschreibung:X, 292 S. : Ill., Kt.
ISBN:9780816531875