Diseased relations epidemics, public health, and state-building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1847-1924 /
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| Language: | English |
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Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : region, ethnography, and medicine in Yucatán, Mexico
- The politics of prevention : the Maya, smallpox, and vaccination campaigns
- On sacred ground : cholera, burial rites, and cemetery management
- Cholera and the caste war : civilizing campaigns and disease prevention
- Modernizing the periphery : henequen, the caste war, and yellow fever
- Disease prevention, the Rockefeller Foundation, and revolution in Yucatán, 1915-24
- Conclusion : outsiders, disease, and public health in modern Yucatán, Mexico
- Afterword : H1N1 and the legacy of uncertainty.