Disease in the History of Modern Latin America by Diego Armus

Disease in the History of Modern Latin America by Diego Armus

Challenging traditional approaches to medical history, this work advances understandings of disease as a social and cultural construction in Latin America. It provides a look at the research in the history of medicine through essays about how disease was experienced and managed in different Latin American countries and regions, at different times.

“This book is an extraordinary contribution that brings together the very best scholars of Latin American public health and social historyIts emphasis on the social conditions that lead to epidemic disease as well as the political and social forces that shape practice is a welcome corrective to a literature still too often dominated by positivist traditions.”—David Rosner, director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health, Columbia University
”I was fascinated by all the essays in Disease in the History of Modern Latin America. They are theoretically aware and sophisticated while they remain accessible and oriented to the complexity of historical experience. This collection is a powerful argument for the richness of an interdisciplinary approach to cultural history.”—Daniel James, author of Doña Maria's Story: Life History, Memory, and Political Identity

Diego Armus is Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Swarthmore College.

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ISBN 13	9780822330691
ISBN 10	0822330695
Title	Disease in the History of Modern Latin America
Author	Diego Armus
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Duke University Press
Year published	2003-03-26
Number of pages	336
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