Diseased relations epidemics, public health, and state-building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1847-1924 /

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1. Verfasser: McCrea, Heather L.
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Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2010.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.