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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797889103321

Autore

Sowell David <1952->

Titolo

Medicine on the periphery : public health in the Yucatan, Mexico, 1870-1960 / / David Sowell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-4985-1735-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Disciplina

362.10972

Soggetti

Public health - History - Mexico

Medical care - History - Mexico

Mexico History 19th century

Mexico History 20th century

Mexico Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.