For all of humanity : Mesoamerican and colonial medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala / / Martha Few
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| Autore: |
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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| Pubblicazione: | Tucson, [Arizona] : , : The University of Arizona Press, , 2015 |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 362.1097281 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | For all of humanity |
| ISBN: | 0-8165-3227-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910819264303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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