UID:
almafu_9959677540402883
Format:
1 online resource (336 p.)
ISBN:
1-283-06429-4
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9786613064295
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0-8223-8434-5
Series Statement:
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Content:
Edited volume that takes a non-traditional approach to the history of medicine in Latin America, and emphasizes the cultural and social construction of disease.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Disease in the historiography of modern Latin America /
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"The only serious terror in these regions" : malaria control in the Brazilian Amazon /
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An imaginary plague in turn-of-the-century Buenos Aires : hysteria, discipline, and languages of the body /
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Tropical medicine in Brazil : the case of chagas' disease /
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Tango, gender, and tuberculosis in Buenos Aires, 1900-1940 /
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The state, physicians, and leprosy in modern Colombia /
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Revolution, the scatological way : the Rockefeller Foundation's hookworm campaign in 1920s Mexico /
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Between risk and confession : state and popular perspectives of syphilis infection in revolutionary Mexico /
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Dying of sadness : hospitalism and child welfare in Mexico City, 1920-1940 /
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Mental illness and democracy in Bolivia : the Manicomio Pacheco, 1935-1950 /
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Stigma and blame during an epidemic : cholera in Peru, 1991 /
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Nation, science, and sex : AIDS and the new Brazilian sexuality /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-3069-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-3057-1
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.1515/9780822384342
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822384342?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822384342
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822384342
