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in Buildings, Boundaries, and Blood: Medicalization and Nation-Building on the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1910-1930
> Hispanic American Historical Review
Published: 01 February 1999
Fig. 2: Quarantine card included as a loose document in NACP, USPHS, RG 90, CF 1897-1923, file 1248.
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (3): 537–538.
Published: 01 August 2013
... in the 1860s, public health concerns became a part of the national reconstruction plans of both nations. The USMHS received the power to develop policies to meet epidemics, implementing its first military quarantine in response to an outbreak of yellow fever in Brownsville, Texas, in 1882. The quarantine...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1999) 79 (1): 41–81.
Published: 01 February 1999
...Fig. 2: Quarantine card included as a loose document in NACP, USPHS, RG 90, CF 1897-1923, file 1248. ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1975) 55 (1): 149–150.
Published: 01 February 1975
... by Duke University Press 1975 The anatomy of major foreign policy decisions is of lively interest to many scholars and practitioners alike. And the 1962 decision of the United States to impose a selective quarantine on Cuba, in order to compel extraction of Soviet offensive missiles, is certainly...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1991) 71 (2): 365–368.
Published: 01 May 1991
... the two greatest killers in preindustrial Europe, bubonic plague and smallpox. According to historical demographer Michael Flinn, evidence from Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries suggests that quarantine measures gradually eliminated bubonic plague by limiting its spread. In the early...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1991) 71 (2): 369–373.
Published: 01 May 1991
...” because these places were regarded as death traps. However, one difficulty with Jackson’s proposed explanation is that it fails to clarify why Guayaquil men would avoid sending to quarantine their ill female loved ones and then turn around and pack off their sons, brothers, and fathers or even go...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1990) 70 (4): 609–637.
Published: 01 November 1990
... preparing a vaccine. 42 The Sanitation Department, created in 1908 and with a staff of 71 by 1920 (administered as a branch of the police), handled other city hygiene matters, including quarantining vessels suspected of bringing in disease, rat control, most vaccinations, and public health care education...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (4): 619–644.
Published: 01 November 1997
... a decade among the fiscales charged with advising the viceroy on the matter. 86 At the same time, colonial authorities often ignored violations of quarantine when the preventive measure impinged on activities considered vital to the state. Complaints frequently surfaced that ship captains...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2007) 87 (2): 423–425.
Published: 01 May 2007
... professionals, historians of medicine and U.S. foreign policy in Latin America, and anyone interested in the connections between health and economic development. Cueto begins with a discussion of international commerce and the early use of quarantines to prevent the spread of disease and then examines...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (4): 573–602.
Published: 01 November 2009
.... Licéaga protested the Texas quarantine energetically. He argued that it violated international scientific standards to impose quarantine in the absence of an actual yellow fever epidemic. (Licéaga admitted that isolated cases of yellow fever existed in Mexico, but insisted that there was no epidemic...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1992) 72 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 February 1992
... governments were also interested in improving public health in their ports and cities as a means of avoiding the effects of quarantine and attracting the coveted European migration. Yellow fever posed a threat not only for foreign colonists but also for travelers, who carried the potential to reinfect...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (1): v.
Published: 01 February 2013
... católica a la república rosista (2004); and Ovejas negras: Historia de los anticlericales argentinos (2010). paul ramírez is assistant professor of history at Northwestern University and the author of “ ‘Like Herod’s Massacre’: Quarantines, Bourbon Reform, and Popular Protest in Oaxaca’s Smallpox...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1964) 44 (4): 654–655.
Published: 01 November 1964
... John F. Kennedy’s televised speech announcing a “quarantine” on military shipments to Cuba—doubtless one of the greatest moments of peril in the history of the human race. The selections are edited for brevity, and, with a few exceptions, taken from generally available sources: the collected...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1965) 45 (3): 471–473.
Published: 01 August 1965
...—stymied now, enmeshed in a bureaucratic labyrinth—is a mirage, another power-play. All aid, he believes, inevitably helps the wolves who guard the sheep. “Gradualism” is a demagogic effort to quarantine Cuba, a reactionary Putsch to patch up the existing ugly power structure that widens the gulf between...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (4): 692–693.
Published: 01 November 1997
... examines, as if an essential “evangelization” and “utopianism” germinated from a single seed. The isolation of friars and Indians supposedly achieved in the Franciscans’ colleges and in Vasco de Quiroga’s “hospital-towns” in mid-sixteenth-century New Spain is said to equal the “spiritual quarantine” (p...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (4): 571–572.
Published: 01 November 2009
... to quarantines and other disruptions of commerce. Public health was therefore central to the Porfirian modernization project. Moreover, the Mexican Superior Health Council, which joined the American Public Health Association in 1890, came to act as an informal diplomatic branch of the Mexican state...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (2): 288–290.
Published: 01 May 1968
... of either deprecating the Indian way of life or glorifying the noble savage (“Pero yo quiero ser juez imparcialísimo de los indios . . .” [II, 109]). Gilij was much concerned with the destruction of the Orinoco tribes by introduced diseases, and he took elaborate quarantine precautions to limit the spread...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (4): 732–734.
Published: 01 November 2009
... discrimination toward Haitian immigrants in the United States, and the belief in Haiti that the United States created the disease to maintain its power and exterminate the poor. Cuba’s initial policies against AIDS — aggressive cleansing of the blood supply, massive HIV testing, and strict quarantine of HIV...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (3): 553–554.
Published: 01 August 2012
... corporal punishment and exile considered not effective against idolaters, the church established in Oaxaca a perpetual prison for indigenous religious leaders to quarantine the idolatrous “contagion.” But the mid-eighteenth-century Oaxaca prison for teachers of idolatry survived only until the 1760s...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1999) 79 (1): 126–127.
Published: 01 February 1999
... a perception of epidemics as “naturally” contagious and spread through “pernicious vapors” (p. 70) began to displace the notion that they were supernatural visitations to punish sins. Antiplague measures of isolation and quarantine that had been worked out in Europe—“a mix of ideas and experiences implemented...
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