Public health and the making of modern Yucatán -- Institutionalizing biomedicine -- Medical communities -- Disease and public health campaigns -- Public health and the revolutionary state -- The biomedicalization of Yucatán
Summary
Medicine on the Periphery traces the development of Yucatán's medical institutions, public health programs, healers, and changing disease environment from the 1870s through 1960. The biomedicalization of Yucatán's public health system is analyzed within the Atlantic medical community and the emerging revolutionary state of central Mexico
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-197) and index
