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UNINA9910819264303321 |
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Few Martha <1964-> |
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Titolo |
For all of humanity : Mesoamerican and colonial medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala / / Martha Few |
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Tucson, [Arizona] : , : The University of Arizona Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Public health - Guatemala - History - 18th century |
Public health - Guatemala - History - 19th century |
Medicine - Guatemala - History - 18th century |
Medicine - Guatemala - History - 19th century |
Indians of Central America - Medicine - Guatemala |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"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. |
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