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- catalog abstract "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 until today. Based on the idea that the meanings of sickness-and health-are contestable and subject to controversy, Disease in the History of Modern Latin America displays the richness of an interdisciplinary approach to social and cultural history. Examining diseases in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia, the contributors explore the production of scientific knowledge, literary metaphors for illness, domestic public health efforts, and initiatives shaped by the agendas of international agencies. They also analyze the connections among ideas of sexuality, disease, nation, and modernity; the instrumental role of certain illnesses in state-building processes; welfare efforts sponsored by the state and led by the medical professions; and the boundaries between individual and state responsibilities regarding sickness and health. Diego Armus's introduction contextualizes the essays within the history of medicine, the history of public health, and the sociocultural history of disease.".
- catalog contributor b12808835.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description "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 until today. Based on the idea that the meanings of sickness-and health-are contestable and subject to controversy, Disease in the History of Modern Latin America displays the richness of an interdisciplinary approach to social and cultural history. Examining diseases in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia, the contributors explore the production of scientific knowledge, literary metaphors for illness, domestic public health efforts, and initiatives shaped by the agendas of international agencies. They also analyze the connections among ideas of sexuality, disease, nation, and modernity; the instrumental role of certain illnesses in state-building processes; welfare efforts sponsored by the state and led by the medical professions; and the boundaries between individual and state responsibilities regarding sickness and health. Diego Armus's introduction contextualizes the essays within the history of medicine, the history of public health, and the sociocultural history of disease.".
- catalog description "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 --".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Stigma and blame during an epidemic : cholera in Peru, 1991 / Marcos Cueto -- Nation, science, and sex : AIDS and the new Brazilian sexuality / Patrick Larvie.".
- catalog description "The state, physicians, and leprosy in modern Colombia / Diana Obregón -- Revolution, the scatalogical 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 --".
- catalog extent "viii, 326 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Disease in the history of modern Latin America.".
- catalog identifier "0822330571 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0822330695 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Disease in the history of modern Latin America.".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Durham : Duke University Press,".
- catalog relation "Disease in the history of modern Latin America.".
- catalog spatial "Latin America".
- catalog spatial "Latin America.".
- catalog subject "2003 F-130".
- catalog subject "614.4/28 21".
- catalog subject "Communicable Disease Control Latin America History.".
- catalog subject "Diseases Latin America History.".
- catalog subject "RA418.3.L29 D575 2003".
- catalog subject "Social Medicine Latin America.".
- catalog subject "Social medicine Latin America.".
- catalog subject "WA 31 D6113 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "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 --".
- catalog tableOfContents "Stigma and blame during an epidemic : cholera in Peru, 1991 / Marcos Cueto -- Nation, science, and sex : AIDS and the new Brazilian sexuality / Patrick Larvie.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The state, physicians, and leprosy in modern Colombia / Diana Obregón -- Revolution, the scatalogical 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 --".
- catalog title "Disease in the history of modern Latin America : from malaria to AIDS / edited by Diego Armus.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".