Book ID: CBB234226159

Medicine on the Periphery: Public Health in Yucatán, Mexico, 1870–1960 (2015)

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Sowell, David (Author)


Lexington Books


Publication Date: 2015
Physical Details: 230 pages
Language: English

Medicine on the Periphery examines the history of the public health of Yucatán, Mexico, from the 1870s through 1960. This book includes chapters on institutions, healers, changing patterns of disease, the biomedicalization of Yucatán, and the relationship between Yucatán and the Mexican Revolutionary government. Sowell analyzes Yucatec officials’ establishment of public health programs as a strategy for the modernization of the region, using wealth from the production of henequen to create Mexico’s most extensive public health system and subsequent tensions with the Revolutionary government. Public health programs situated the Yucatán into a complex position in the nexus of knowledge, power, and technologies of the Atlantic medical community. Medicine on the Periphery provides a comprehensive look at how Yucatán became a medical periphery, a status that made it increasingly dependent upon knowledge and technologies produced in the productive core of the North Atlantic and subject to the authority of the Mexican state. This book will be of interest to scholars in Mexican studies, history of medicine and public health in Latin America and in the Atlantic world.

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Review Luz María Hernández-Sáenz (2017) Review of "Medicine on the Periphery: Public Health in Yucatán, Mexico, 1870–1960". American Historical Review (pp. 891-892). unapi

Review Marcos Cueto (2016) Review of "Medicine on the Periphery: Public Health in Yucatán, Mexico, 1870–1960". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 732-734). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Moreno, Paola Peniche
Sarah A. Stein
Anat Mooreville
Webb, James L. A.
Vieira, Ismael Cerqueira
Scragg, Roy
Concepts
Public health
Disease and diseases
Medicine
Medicine and politics
Cholera
Infectious diseases
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
21st century
20th century, early
17th century
Places
Latin America
Yucatán (Mexico)
Argentina
Mexico
Brazil
Lisbon (Portugal)
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