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Title

Disease in the history of modern Latin America : from malaria to AIDS / edited by Diego Armus.

Publication

Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

Armus, Diego.

Description

viii, 326 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Social medicine > Latin America
• Diseases > Latin America > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Disease in the historiography of modern Latin America / Diego Armus -- "The only serious terror in these regions" : malaria control in the Brazilian Amazon / Nancy Leys Stepan -- An imaginary plague in turn-of-the-century Buenos Aires : hysteria, discipline, and languages of the body / Gabriela Nouzeilles -- Tropical medicine in Brazil : the case of chagas' disease / Marilia Coutinho -- Tango, gender, and tuberculosis in Buenos Aires, 1900-1940 / Diego Armus -- The state, physicians, and leprosy in modern Colombia / Diana Obregón -- Revolution, the scatological way : the Rockefeller Foundation's hookworm campaign in 1920s Mexico / Anne-Emanuelle Birn -- Between risk and confession : state and popular perspectives of syphilis infection in revolutionary Mexico / Katherine Elaine Bliss -- Dying of sadness : hospitalism and child welfare in Mexico City, 1920-1940 / Ann S. Blum -- Mental illness and democracy in Bolivia : the Manicomio Pacheco, 1935-1950 / Ann Zulawski -- Stigma and blame during an epidemic : cholera in Peru, 1991 / Marcos Cueto -- Nation, science, and sex : AIDS and the new Brazilian sexuality / Patrick Larvie.

Call Number

JHE 03-300

ISBN

• 0822330571 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0822330695 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002151597

OCLC

50768606

Title

Disease in the history of modern Latin America : from malaria to AIDS / edited by Diego Armus.

Imprint

Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Added Author

Armus, Diego.

Research Call Number

JHE 03-300