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

For All of Humanity: Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala
ISBN-10
0816531870
ISBN-13
9780816531875
Category
History
Pages
304
Language
English
Published
2015-10-22
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Author
Martha Few

Description

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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