Book ID: CBB029842103

For All of Humanity: Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala (2015)

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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"--

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Review Laura Matthew (2017) Review of "For All of Humanity: Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala". Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History. unapi

Review Sophie Brockmann (2017) Review of "For All of Humanity: Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala". Social History of Medicine (pp. 686-687). unapi

Review Katrina Maydom (2017) Review of "For All of Humanity: Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 356-358). unapi

Review José Ramón Jouve Martín (2016) Review of "For All of Humanity: Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 722-723). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Few, Martha
Mazzola, Roberto
Brigo, Francesco
Martini, Mariano
Orsini, Davide
James A. Ostenson
Journals
Social History of Medicine
Medicina nei Secoli - Arte e Scienza
Laboratorio dell'ISPF
Public Understanding of Science
Journal of Global History
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Publishers
University of New Mexico Press
University of California Press
Praeger
Ohio State University Press
Edwin Mellen Press
Boydell Press
Concepts
Disease and diseases
Public health
Epidemics
Medicine
Medicine and society
Health
People
Andrea Verga
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
20th century
17th century
16th century
Places
England
Guatemala
Great Britain
Central America
Italy
San Francisco (California)
Institutions
European Association against Poliomyelitis
World Health Organization (WHO)
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