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

• Autore: Sowell David <1952->
• Pubblicazione: Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (231 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.10972
• Soggetto topico: Public health - History - Mexico; Medical care - History - Mexico
• Soggetto geografico: Mexico History 19th century; Mexico History 20th century; Mexico Politics and government
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Medicine on the periphery
• ISBN: 1-4985-1735-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797889103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II