...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...

... was no longer Brazil's economic or political center yet still was highly indicative of national history in the realm of health—provides a framework for other historians wanting to use a country's regional history to elucidate national trends. For those seeking to put a human experience and face to the often top...

...Ronn Pineo Unequal Cures: Public Health and Political Change in Bolivia, 1900 – 1950 . By Zulawski Ann . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2007 . Photographs. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . x , 253 pp. Cloth , $74.95 . Paper , $21.95 . Copyright 2008 by Duke...

...Alexandra Minna Stern Abstract In 1932, the Mexican state of Veracruz passed Latin America’s only eugenic sterilization law. Building on the foundational scholarship of Nancy Leys Stepan, this article critically examines Veracruz’s eugenics movement, exploring how it intersected with public health...

... trypanosomiasis) made him arguably the best-known medical scientist in the country. As the federal director of public health and the director as well of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute, he appeared to be well positioned to collaborate fruitfully with RF initiatives in public health and medical education. Yet in many...

...Anne-Emanuelle Birn; Raúl Necochea López Abstract This essay analyzes the current state of the field of history of health and medicine in Latin America and proposes questions and areas for further investigation. Using a variety of databases to identify relevant historiographical sources from across...

...Donald B. Cooper * The author is assistant professor of history at Oklahoma State University. Copyright 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 F or many years there has existed in the Department of Health and Welfare (Secretaría de Salubridad y Asistencia) in Mexico City a large...

...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...

...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...

...Gustave A. Nuermberger Alphabetical List of Medical and Public Health Journals of Latin America . Compiled by de la Garza Jeannette M. . [ Pan American Sanitary Bureau, Publication No. 185 .] ( Washington, D. C. : Pan American Sanitary Bureau, July , 1942 . Pp. [ 3 ] 60 . Paper...

...Gabriela Soto Laveaga Abstract A 1970s and 1980s poverty alleviation program, IMSS-COPLAMAR, challenged universal definitions of poverty as well as health models for rural areas while proffering a distinctly Mexican alternative. Yet this solution, broadly painting rural dwellers as marginados...

..., International Health Board, Fifth Annual Report, January 1, 1918–December 31, 1918 (New York: RF, 1919), 19–20. The results of hookworm research figured significantly in the IHB’s scientific output. See, e.g., H[ector] H[oldbrook] Howard, The Control of Hookworm Disease by the Intensive Method (New York: RF...

...Donald B. Cooper Dr. Soper’s memoirs are a useful source for the growth of international health agencies, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the modern history of yellow fever. The book might have marginal value for students of Brazilian history for the period from 1920 to 1942. Unfortunately...

... 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...

...Michele McArdle Stephens Medicine on the Periphery: Public Health in the Yucatán, Mexico, 1870–1960 . By Sowell David . New York : Lexington Books , 2015 . Figures. Tables. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xxii, 205 pp. Cloth , $85.00 . Copyright © 2017 by Duke University...

...Thomas F. O’brien Marriage of Convenience: Rockefeller International Health and Revolutionary Mexico . By Birn Anne-Emanuelle . Rochester Studies in Medical History, 8 . Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press , 2006 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Appendix. Notes...

...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...

...Pablo Piccato Compromised Positions: Prostitution, Public Health, and Gender Politics in Revolutionary Mexico City . By Bliss Katherine Elaine . University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2001 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Bibliography. Index . xv , 243...

...Ann Zulawski The Return of the Epidemics: Health and Society in Peru during the Twentieth Century. By Cueto Marcos . The History of Medicine in Context . Burlington, Vt .: Ashgate , 2001 . Table. Notes. Bibliography. Index . x, 176 pp. Cloth , $79.95 . Copyright 2003...

... University Press 2002 White Slavery and Mothers Alive and Dead: The Troubled Meeting of Sex, Gender, Public Health, and Progress in Latin America . By Guy Donna J. . Engendering Latin America , vol. 5 . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2000 . Tables. Bibliographic Essay. Index...