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Mexico’s Superior Health Council and the American Public Health Association: The Transnational Archive of Porfirian Public Health, 1887–1910
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (4): 573–602.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Paul Ross Abstract In the late nineteenth century, Mexico’s Superior Health Council devised a consistent and assertive international strategy around alignment with international scientific standards, the control of disease certification on Mexican soil by Mexican experts, transparent disease...
View articletitled, Mexico’s Superior <span class="search-highlight">Health</span> Council and the American Public <span class="search-highlight">Health</span> Association: The Transnational Archive of Porfirian Public <span class="search-highlight">Health</span>, 1887–1910
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Death Is All around Us: Corpses, Chaos, and Public Health in Porfirian Mexico City
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (3): 573–575.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Amanda M. López Death Is All around Us: Corpses, Chaos, and Public Health in Porfirian Mexico City . By Jonathan M. Weber The Mexican Experience . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2019 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii , 276 pp. Paper, $30.00...
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Transforming Therapy: Mental Health Practice and Cultural Change in Mexico
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (3): 578–580.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Jennifer Lambe Transforming Therapy: Mental Health Practice and Cultural Change in Mexico . By Whitney L. Duncan Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press , 2018 . Photographs. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvi , 254 pp. Paper, $39.95 . Copyright © 2020 by Duke...
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Poisoned Eden: Cholera Epidemics, State-Building, and the Problem of Public Health in Tucumán, Argentina, 1865–1908
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (3): 565–567.
Published: 01 August 2023
... and contagion theory. Yet many experts continued to link cholera to environmental and social causes, and public health policy continued to focus on urban sanitation. Finally, Dimas sees great improvement in Tucumán's public health in the 1890s. Though the province did benefit from railroad expansion, free...
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São Paulo Rising: Grassroots Movements and the Right to Health in Authoritarian Brazil
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (3): 495–526.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Daniel McDonald Abstract This article examines grassroots constructions of a right to health in São Paulo's urban periphery during Brazil's civil-military dictatorship (1964–85). Centered on the rise of the Movimento de Saúde da Zona Leste (Health Movement of the East Zone), an agglomeration...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (4): 740–741.
Published: 01 November 1997
...Marcos Cueto Health Care in Colombia, c.1920-c.1950: A Preliminary Analysis , By Abel Christopher . London : Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London , 1994 . Notes . 96 pp. Paper . $14.00 . Copyright 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 This work...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (4): 619–644.
Published: 01 November 1997
...Andrew L. Knaut Copyright 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 IN the late eighteenth century, public health formed an integral part of the Bourbon campaign to revitalize the Spanish colonial enterprise and reinstate Spain as one of Europe’s premier imperial powers. As frequent outbreaks...
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The Ailing City: Health, Tuberculosis, and Culture in Buenos Aires, 1870–1950
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (3): 540–541.
Published: 01 August 2015
... about tuberculosis shaped policies on the selection of immigrant groups to enter Argentina, ideas about health and proper behavior among women, and measures for promoting child health. A key feature of these chapters is a focus on the production of stereotypes linking tuberculosis to shifting ideas...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (1): 184–185.
Published: 01 February 1970
...Thomas Ford Health Manpower in Peru. A Case Study in Planning . By Hall Thomas L. . Baltimore , 1969 . Johns Hopkins Press . The Johns Hopkins Monographs in International Health . Map. Tables. Notes. Appendices. Index . Pp. xiv , 281 . $6.50 . Copyright 1970 by Duke...
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Diseased Relations: Epidemics, Public Health, and State-Building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1847 – 1924
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (3): 580–581.
Published: 01 August 2012
...David Sowell Diseased Relations: Epidemics, Public Health, and State-Building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1847 – 1924 . By McCrea Heather . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2010 . Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv , 288 pp. Paper , $27.95...
View articletitled, Diseased Relations: Epidemics, Public <span class="search-highlight">Health</span>, and State-Building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1847 – 1924
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Fevered Measures: Public Health and Race at the Texas-Mexico Border, 1848-1942
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (3): 537–538.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Don M. Coerver Fevered Measures: Public Health and Race at the Texas-Mexico Border, 1848-1942 . By Mckiernan-González John . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2012 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvi , 416 pp. Paper , $26.95 . Copyright...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (1): 63–92.
Published: 01 February 2020
...-standing stereotypes of poor indigenous populations, leading people to make misguided linkages between the high incidence of typhus within those populations and their supposed moral or intellectual shortcomings. Third, the typhus epidemic prompted fundamental reforms to the nation's public health system...
View articletitled, The Fever of War: Epidemic Typhus and Public <span class="search-highlight">Health</span> in Revolutionary Mexico City, 1915–1917
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In Pursuit of Health Equity: A History of Latin American Social Medicine
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (3): 532–534.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Raúl Necochea López Despite small misfires, such as the argument about of the stagnation of Carlos Enrique Paz Soldán's Institute of Social Medicine after 1930—the institute evolved into the vibrant Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San...
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Conjuring the State: Public Health Encounters in Highland Ecuador, 1908–1945
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (4): 739–741.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Marlen Rosas [email protected] Conjuring the State: Public Health Encounters in Highland Ecuador, 1908–1945 . By A. Kim Clark . Pitt Latin American Series . Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2023 . Photograph. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii...
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Health in the Highlands: Indigenous Healing and Scientific Medicine in Guatemala and Ecuador
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (4): 736–738.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Heather Vrana [email protected] Health in the Highlands: Indigenous Healing and Scientific Medicine in Guatemala and Ecuador . By David Carey Jr . Oakland : University of California Press , 2023 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxviii, 354 pp. Paper...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Health</span> in the Highlands: Indigenous Healing and Scientific Medicine in Guatemala and Ecuador
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Peripheral Nerve: Health and Medicine in Cold War Latin America
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (3): 534–536.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Kelly Urban Peripheral Nerve: Health and Medicine in Cold War Latin America . Edited by Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Raúl Necochea López . American Encounters/Global Interactions . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2020 . Notes. Bibliography. Index. xx , 356 pp. Paper, $29.95...
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The Right to Live in Health: Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (3): 556–557.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Mariola Espinosa The Right to Live in Health: Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana . By Daniel A. Rodríguez Envisioning Cuba . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2020 . Photographs. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xv, 268 pp. Paper, $34.95...
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“Agents of Change” in Maternal and Infant Care: Matronas , Parteras , and Public Health in Bolivia, 1950s–1970s
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (4): 629–656.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Kathryn N. Gallien Abstract In the 1950s and 1960s young women could study to become obstetric midwives ( matronas ) at two Bolivian universities. After the 1952 Bolivian Revolution, public health officials saw matronas' work in mining areas and rural public health programs as part...
View articletitled, “Agents of Change” in Maternal and Infant Care: Matronas , Parteras , and Public <span class="search-highlight">Health</span> in Bolivia, 1950s–1970s
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Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs: Mining, Water, and Public Health in Zacatecas, 1835–1946
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (4): 711–713.
Published: 01 November 2021
... de la extracción es una herramienta que posibilita reconstruir históricamente los estragos ocasionados por la actividad minera, los cuales incluso se pueden percibir en la actualidad (p. 228). Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs: Mining, Water, and Public Health in Zacatecas, 1835–1946 . By Rocio...
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Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World: A Gendered Perspective
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (3): 528–530.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Christina M. Bueno Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World: A Gendered Perspective . Edited by Margaret E. Boyle and Sarah E. Owens . Toronto Iberic . Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 2021 . Photographs. Map. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliographies. Index . xii...
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