...Amy Chazkel Race, Place, and Medicine: The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Medicine . By Peard Julyan G. . Durham : Duke University Press , 2000 . Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . x , 315 pp. Cloth , $54.95 . Paper , $17.95 . Copyright 2001...

...Louis A. Pérez, Jr. Cuban Medicine . By Danielson Ross . Foreword by Freidson Eliot . New Brunswick, N.J. , 1979 . Transaction Books . Illustrations. Diagrams. Tables. Notes. Appendix. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xv , 247 . Cloth. $14.95 . Copyright 1980 by Duke...

...Donna J. Guy Modernity in the Flesh: Medicine, Law, and Society in Turn-of-the-Century Argentina . By Ruggiero Kristen . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2004 . Notes. Bibliography. Index. ix, 244 pp. Cloth , $49.50 . Copyright 2005 by Duke University Press 2005...

...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...

...Linda A. Newson Secret Cures of Slaves is a scholarly, well-illustrated monograph that draws on archival as well as printed sources. It makes a valuable contribution to knowledge of the history of medicine in the British and French West Indies and reveals its links across the Atlantic...

...L. A. Tambs A Great Luso-Brazilian Figure: Padre António Vieira, S.J., 1608-1697 . Vol. V . By Boxer C. R. . London , 1957 . The Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Councils . The Fourth Canning House Annual Lecture . Notes . Pp. 32 . Paper . Two Pioneers of Tropical Medicine...

...Julia Rodriguez Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru: Population Growth and the Bourbon Reforms . By Warren Adam . Pitt Latin American Series . Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2010 . Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xi , 290 pp. Paper...

...Alfred W. Crosby Medicine in Mexico. From Aztec Herbs to Betatrons . By Schendel Gordon . Austin , 1968 . University of Texas Press . The Texas Pan-American Series . Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xiv , 329 . $6.50 . Copyright 1969 by Duke University Press...

...Guenter B. Risse Indian Medicine in Highland Guatemala: The Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Periods . By Orellana Sandra L. . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 1987 . Illustrations. Maps. Photographs. Appendix. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xi , 308 . Cloth . $29.95...

...Raúl Necochea López Medicine and Nation Building in the Americas, 1890–1940 . By Amador José . Nashville, TN : Vanderbilt University Press , 2015 . Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. ix, 219 pp. Paper , $69.95 . Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Latin...

...David Sowell From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism: Doctors, Healers, and Public Power in Costa Rica, 1800–1940 . By Palmer Steven . Durham : Duke University Press , 2003 . Photographs. Map. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 329 pp. Cloth , $69.95 . Paper...

...John Jay TePaske Medicine in the New World: New Spain, New France, and New England . Edited by Numbers Ronald L. . Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press , 1987 . Photographs. Table. Illustration. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 175 . Cloth . Copyright 1988 by Duke...

...Derek Williams The Tale of Healer Miguel Perdomo Neira: Medicine, Ideologies, and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Andes . By Sowell David . Latin American Silhouettes . Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources , 2001 . Map. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xix , 171 pp...

...Donald B. Cooper An Annotated Catalogue of Medical Americana in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine . By Price Robin . London : The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine , 1983 . Illustrations. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xix , 319 . Cloth...

...Diana Deg. Brown Sacred Leaves of Candomblé: African Magic, Medicine, and Religion in Brazil . By Voeks Robert A. . Austin : University of Texas Press , 1997 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xvii, 236 pp. Cloth, 37.50. Paper , $17.95...

...Libbet Crandon Aztec Medicine, Health, and Nutrition . By Ortiz De Montellano Bernard R. . New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press , 1990 . Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvi , 308 pp. Paper . $15.00 . Copyright 1992 by Duke University Press...

...H. R. Harvey Hippocrates’ Latin American Legacy: Humoral Medicine in the New World . By Foster George M. . Langhorne, Pa .: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers , 1994 . Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index, xvii, 242 pp. Paper . $18.00 . Copyright 1995 by Duke...

...Kelly Urban Another fruitful avenue that may exist in the future is more explicitly comparative scholarship. In the foreword, Gilbert Joseph notes that there was a particular Latin American Cold War. Peripheral Nerve contends that there was also a distinctive Latin American Cold War medicine...

... of the panel to present papers that explored the impact of Stepan’s studies on current research on the history of Latin American science and medicine. The session (for which Nancy Stepan was the commentator) fortuitously coincided with her recent retirement from Columbia University and her new research...

...Jennifer Lambe Few's thoughtful and compelling book opens up these rich areas for future investigation and systematization. It will thus represent essential reading for researchers of medicine and public health throughout the Atlantic world as well as students and scholars of colonial Latin...