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Hispanic American Historical Review (1951) 31 (4): 708–709.
Published: 01 November 1951
...David Lowenthal Physician to the World: the Life of General William C. Gorgas . By Gibson John M. . ( Durham : Duke University Press , 1950 . Pp. 315 . Plates, bibliography, index . $4.50 .) Copyright 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1991) 71 (1): 158–159.
Published: 01 February 1991
...Donald B. Cooper Death By Migration: Europe’s Encounter with the Tropical World in the Nineteenth Century . By Curtin Philip D. . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1990 . Graphs. Maps. Tables. Appendix. Bibliography. Index , xix , 251 pp. Cloth . $39.50 . Physician...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1965) 45 (3): 439–541.
Published: 01 August 1965
...Duvon C. Corbitt * The author is Professor of History at Asbury College. Copyright 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 A ugust 20 of this year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Carlos Juan Finlay, the Cuban physician whose pioneer work on yellow fever made possible...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (4): 595–629.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Daniel A. Rodriguez Abstract This essay explores the radicalization of the Cuban medical class in the context of the economic and political crises of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Organized under the Cuban Medical Federation, physicians targeted Havana's Spanish-run hospital system for its low...
View articletitled, “To Fight These Powerful Trusts and Free the Medical Profession”: Medicine, Class Formation, and Revolution in Cuba, 1925–1935
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2004) 84 (2): 366–368.
Published: 01 May 2004
... of medicine, an account of fundamental advances begot by the introduction of scientific medicine into the region. This historiography tended to focus upon “firsts” (the first microscope, type of surgery, etc.), achievements by leading physicians, the professionalization of the field, and the construction...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (4): 708–710.
Published: 01 November 2009
... examines physicians’ increasing interest in the female body and childbirth and their increasing, if always limited, control over labor and delivery. In the early republican era, where Zárate’s story begins in earnest, medicine itself was not a well-regulated or well-defined profession. But in 1834...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (4): 677–690.
Published: 01 November 1989
... depleted by pregnancy or the process of giving birth and males doing hard physical labor are the main adult victims. 2 Yet in Brazil, save for isolated spots in the Northeast, rice played little part in the diet until this century. Thus, it was something of a shock for nineteenth-century physicians...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1988) 68 (3): 584–585.
Published: 01 August 1988
... of Old World methods and learning. In all three European societies, bonafide, licensed physicians and surgeons trained in Alcalá de Henares, Paris, or London, relying on Galen, Hippocrates, and Avicenna, transmitted their theories and practices virtually unchanged to colonies overseas. Because of severe...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (1): 119–121.
Published: 01 February 1963
... of Caracas, and of the Nation; records of the Academies of History and of Medicine; and private sources. Few physicians settled in the sparsely populated country till the end of the 16th century. Adapting to aboriginal customs curanderos —medicine men—were the only recourse in illness. Malaria and smallpox...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (3): 556–557.
Published: 01 August 2021
... principles in the modernization of public health and the establishment of health as a right in Cuba. By looking at the actions of physicians and sanitarians, health officials, and caretakers in the second half of the 1800s—when bacteriology and its related medical advancements had started to rapidly...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (4): 762.
Published: 01 November 1968
... and medical roles of physicians and surgeons during the celebrated campaigns of Bolívar in Venezuela. The Liberator himself “was somewhat skeptical about the medicine of his era” (p. 99), an understandable attitude toward a primitive profession. Physicians everywhere blamed yellow fever, which decimated both...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1977) 57 (1): 187–188.
Published: 01 February 1977
... pharmacists and their assistants whose competence according to the author, “has been seriously questioned by medical experts” (p. 124). Often lacking adequate training and motivated by profit, these shopkeepers are allowed in some areas to act as physician substitutes, dispensing drugs without prescription...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (4): 743–745.
Published: 01 November 2019
.... Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xix, 354 pp. Paper , C$39.95 . Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 Luz María Hernández Sáenz's book presents a remarkable account of the factors that contributed to the reorganization of physicians as a modern profession in postindependence Mexico...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (3): 393–423.
Published: 01 August 1989
... (city physician since 1812), Vargas submitted a proposal which was accepted by the Superior Board of Sanitation on April 28, 1818. 76 The new proposal created a system almost identical to what Balmis had suggested to the viceroy of Mexico in 1804. (Perhaps Vargas, a Venezuelan, was familiar...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1987) 67 (1): 155–156.
Published: 01 February 1987
.... The royal Protomedicato in colonial Spanish America, the focus of this study, was a board of physicians appointed by the crown and charged with safeguarding public health and regulating the medical profession. Its story, told here with insight and amplitude, encompasses not only the Protomedicato itself...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1992) 72 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 February 1992
... of the Augusto B. Leguía administration. A serious epidemic began in 1919, and ended in 1921 only with the intervention of the Rockefeller Foundation. The sanitary campaign directed by American physicians was applied with an unlimited confidence in the capacity of technological resources, little community...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (4): 693–714.
Published: 01 November 1970
... palomino que parió una muger . . . (Lima, 1812), passim . 36 Ibid ., 1-98/93; Humboldt, Essai , I, 68-69. As early as 1802, Unanue had at14tempted to use Jenner’s vaccine, but the fluid proved to be inert and thus the vaccination did not "take." Lima physicians made successful vaccinations from...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (3): 571–573.
Published: 01 August 2019
... experiments conducted by French and British physicians in the West Indies in the late eighteenth century. Londa Schiebinger is well known for her scholarly publications in this field, and a number of the chapters draw on these. Four of the book's five chapters discuss the particular experiments that were...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (1): 1–44.
Published: 01 February 1997
...Julyan G. Peard Copyright 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 H istorians of Latin America have only recently begun to revise the longstanding image of nineteenth-century Latin American physicians who faithfully (and passively) reproduced European medicine in their mainly tropical...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (2): 283–318.
Published: 01 May 2010
... in the 1930s. Primary evidence on the activities of the Deustch-Iberoamerikanische-Ärzteakademie (German-Iberoamerican Medical Academy) reveals significant details regarding the reception and circulation of Nazi eugenics among Latin American physicians. Experts traveling to Germany to attend summer courses...
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