IN PURSUIT OF HEALTH EQUITY: A HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICAN SOCIAL MEDICINE
Author: Eric D. Carter
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN-13: 978-1469674445
Throughout Latin America, social medicine has been widely recognized for its critical perspectives on mainstream understandings of health and for its progressive policy achievements. Nevertheless, it has been an elusive subject: hard to define, with puzzling historical discontinuities and misconceptions about its origins. Drawing on a vast archive and with an ambitious narrative scope that transcends national borders, Eric D. Carter offers the first comprehensive intellectual and political history of the social medicine movement in Latin America, from the early twentieth century to the present day.
DISEASE IN THE HISTORY OF MODERN LATIN AMERICA: FROM MALARIA TO AIDS
Edited by: Diego Armus
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
ISBN-13: 978-0822330578
Challenging traditional approaches to medical history, Disease in the History of Modern Latin America advances understandings of disease as a social and cultural construction in Latin America. This innovative collection provides a vivid look at the latest research in the cultural history of medicine through insightful essays about how disease—whether it be cholera or aids, leprosy or mental illness—was experienced and managed in different Latin American countries and regions, at different times from the late nineteenth century to the present.
MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH IN LATIN AMERICA: A HISTORY
Authors: Marcos Cueto & Steven Palmer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1107023673
Despite several studies on the social, cultural, and political histories of medicine and public health in Latin America and the Caribbean, local and national focuses still predominate. This book summarizes the social history of medicine, medical education, and public health in Latin America and places it in dialogue with international historiographical currents. Ultimately, this text provides a clear, broad, and provocative synthesis of Latin American medical developments while illuminating recent challenges of global health in the region and other developing countries.
HEALTHCARE IN LATIN AMERICA: HISTORY, SOCIETY, CULTURE
Edited by: David S. Dalton & Douglas J. Weatherford
Publisher: University of Florida Press
ISBN-13: 978-1683402619
Healthcare in Latin America gathers research by many of the foremost scholars working on the topic and region in fields such as history, sociology, women’s studies, political science, and cultural studies. As economic and political conditions have shifted amid modernization efforts, independence movements, migrations, and continued inequities, so have the policies and practices of healthcare also developed and changed. This book offers a rich overview of how the stories of healthcare in Latin America are intertwined with the region’s political, historical, and cultural identities.
CONJURING THE STATE, PUBLIC HEALTH ENCOUNTERS IN HIGHLAND ECUADOR, 1908-1845
Author: A. KIM CLARK
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN-13: 9780822947820
The Ecuadorian Public Health Service was founded in 1908 in response to the arrival of bubonic plague in the country. A. Kim Clark uses this as a point of departure to explore questions of social history and public health by tracing how the service extended the reach of its broader programs across the national landscape and into domestic spaces. By using public health as a window to understand social relations in a country deeply divided by region, class, and ethnicity, Conjuring the State examines the cultural, social, and political effects of the everyday practices of public health officials.
COMPOUND REMEDIES
Author: Paula S. DeVos
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN-13: 9780822967255
Compound Remedies examines the equipment, books, and remedies of colonial Mexico City’s Herrera pharmacy—natural substances with known healing powers that formed part of the basis for modern-day healing traditions and home remedies in Mexico. Her detailed inventory of the Herrera pharmacy reveals the many layers of this tradition and how it developed over centuries, providing new perspectives and insight into the development of Western science and medicine: its varied origins, its engagement with and inclusion of multiple knowledge traditions, how these traditions moved and circulated about imperialism, and its long-term continuities and dramatic transformations.
MEDICINE AND POLITICS IN COLONIAL PERU
Author: Adam Warren
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN-13: 9780822961116
By the end of the eighteenth century, Peru had witnessed the decline of its silver industry and had barely begun to recover from massive population losses due to smallpox and other diseases. At the time, it was widely believed that economic salvation was contingent upon increasing the labor force and maintaining as many healthy workers as possible. In this volume, Adam Warren presents a groundbreaking study of the importance placed on medical care to generate population growth during this era. As Warren’s study reveals, Bourbon reforms and Creole physicians were instrumental in founding of modern medicine in Peru.
THE GRAY ZONES OF MEDICINE, HEALERS & HISTORY IN LATIN AMERICA
Author: Diego Armus & Pablo F. Gómez
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN-13: 9780822944492
Health practitioners working in gray zones, or between official and unofficial medicines, played a fundamental role in shaping Latin America from the colonial period onward. The Gray Zones of Medicine, Healers & History in Latin America offers a human, relatable, complex examination of the history of health and healing in Latin America across five centuries. Through an accessible and story-like format, this book unlocks the potential of historical narratives of healings to understand and give nuance to processes too frequently articulated through intellectual medical histories or the lenses of empires, nation-states, and their institutions.
