For all of humanity Mesoamerican and colonial medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala / Martha Few.

Author/creator Few, Martha, 1964-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoTucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2015.
Descriptionx, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Contents Introduction : medicine, colonialism, and the enlightenment -- Epidemic death and signs of life -- Typhus and the landscapes of Maya medicine -- Constructing colonial fetuses -- How to inoculate indians -- "This marvelous fluid" -- Colonial humanitarianism and disease.
Abstract "For All of Humanity examines the first public health campaigns in Guatemala, southern Mexico, and Central America in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It reconstructs a rich and complex picture of the ways colonial doctors, surgeons, Indigenous healers, midwives, priests, government officials, and ordinary people engaged in efforts to prevent and control epidemic disease"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 267-277) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
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LCCN 2015005383
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