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

"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, governme...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Few, Martha, 1964- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2015.
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Summary:"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.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780816532278
0816532273
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.