Book ID: CBB000550762

Monuments of Progress: Modernization and Public Health in Mexico City, 1876--1910 (2004)

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Agostoni, Claudia (Author)


University of Calgary


Publication Date: 2004
Physical Details: xvii + 228 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Review Cueto, Marcos (2005) Review of "Monuments of Progress: Modernization and Public Health in Mexico City, 1876--1910". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (p. 135). unapi

Review Laveaga, Gabriela Soto (2004) Review of "Monuments of Progress: Modernization and Public Health in Mexico City, 1876--1910". Social History of Medicine (p. 522). unapi

Review Rodriguez, Julia (2007) Review of "Monuments of Progress: Modernization and Public Health in Mexico City, 1876--1910". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 186). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Weber, Jonathan Michael
Mundy, Barbara E.
Vitz, Matthew
Guillermo Guajardo Soto
Escamilla-González, Francisco Omar
Pilar Blanco, María del
Journals
Imago Mundi: A Review of Early Cartography
Technology's Stories
Science and Education
Quaderns d'Història de l'Enginyeria
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society
Publishers
University of Pittsburgh Press
The University of North Carolina Press
University of Texas Press
University of Nebraska Press
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Medicina
Pennsylvania State University Press
Concepts
Spain, colonies
Public health
Technology and society
Urban planning
Medicine and politics
Mental disorders and diseases
People
Castera, Pedro
Werner, Abraham Gottlob
Río, Andrés Manuel del
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
16th century
20th century, early
18th century
17th century
Places
Mexico City (Mexico)
Mexico
New Spain
Freiberg (Germany)
Texas (U.S.)
Institutions
Manicomio General La Castañeda (Psychiatric Hospital)
Royal Indian Hospital of Mexico City
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Observatorio Astronómico Nacional
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