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...Jennifer Lambe For All of Humanity: Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala . By Few Martha . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2015 . Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. ix, 292 pp. Paper , $34.95 . Copyright © 2017 by Duke University...

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... 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...

...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...

...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...

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... in the future. As it stands now, however, this study will no doubt emerge as a standard reference work on health service in Cuba. The social service system before and after Castro is the major focal point of Ross Danielson’s survey of Cuban medicine. The book goes beyond a study of medicine in Cuba, however...

...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...

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...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...

...David Sowell From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism is a well-written book that will assume a leading place in the scholarship on medicine in Latin America. Scholars interested in public policy, the growth of the state, and populism will benefit from it as well. The case of Carlos...

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...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...

...Edward Anthony Polanco The Gray Zones of Medicine: Healers and History in Latin America . Edited by Diego Armus and Pablo F. Gómez . Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2021 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. viii, 262 pp. Cloth, $55.00...

...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...

...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...

...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...

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