Medicine on the periphery : public health in Yucatán, Mexico, 1870-1960 /

Medicine on the Periphery traces the development of Yucatán's medical institutions, public health programs, healers, and changing disease environment from the 1870s through 1960. The biomedicalization of Yucatán's public health system is analyzed within the Atlantic medical community and...

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Bibliografski detalji
Glavni autor: Sowell, David, 1952- (Autor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Jezik:engleski
Izdano: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015]
Online pristup:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1086543
Sadržaj:
  • Public health and the making of modern Yucatán
  • Institutionalizing biomedicine
  • Medical communities
  • Disease and public health campaigns
  • Public health and the revolutionary state
  • The biomedicalization of Yucatán.