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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819264303321

Autore

Few Martha <1964->

Titolo

For all of humanity : Mesoamerican and colonial medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala / / Martha Few

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tucson, [Arizona] : , : The University of Arizona Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8165-3227-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Disciplina

362.1097281

Soggetti

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

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

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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.