Disease in the History of Modern Latin America From Malaria to AIDS

Name: Disease in the History of Modern Latin America From Malaria to AIDS
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ISBN: 9780822330691

ISBN-10: 0822330695

ISBN-13: 9780822330691

Edition: 2003

Authors: Diego Armus

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Challenging the traditional approach to medical history, this text advances understandings of disease as a social & cultural construction in Latin America. It provides a vivid look at the latest research in the cultural history of medicine through studies of how disease has been & is experienced or managed.

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 3/26/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



Preface


Disease in the Historiography of Modern Latin America



"The Only Serious Terror in These Regions": Malaria Control in the Brazilian Amazon



An Imaginary Plague in Turn-of-the-Century Buenos Aires: Hysteria, Discipline, and Languages of the Body



Tropical Medicine in Brazil: The Case of Chagas' Disease



Tango, Gender, and Tuberculosis in Buenos Aires, 1900-1940



The State, Physicians, and Leprosy in Modern Colombia



Revolution, the Scatological Way: The Rockefeller Foundation's Hookworm Campaign in 1920s Mexico



Between Risk and Confession: State and Popular Perspectives of Syphilis Infection in Revolutionary Mexico



Dying of Sadness: Hospitalism and Child Welfare in Mexico City, 1920-1940



Mental Illness and Democracy in Bolivia: The Manicomio Pacheco, 1935-1950



Stigma and Blame during an Epidemic: Cholera in Peru, 1991



Nation, Science, and Sex: AIDS and the New Brazilian Sexuality



Contributors


Index