Diseased relations : epidemics, public health, and state-building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1847-1924

Diseased relations epidemics, public health, and state-building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1847-1924

This study examines the politics of postcolonial state-building through the lens of disease and public health policy in order to trace how indigenous groups on the periphery of power and geography helped shape the political practices and institutions of m

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McCrea, Heather L. (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press 2010.
Subjects:
Public health > Mexico > Yucatán (State)
Epidemics > Mexico > Yucatán (State)
Medical policy > Mexico > Yucatán (State)
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798129906719
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : region, ethnography, and medicine in Yucatán, Mexico
  • The politics of prevention : the Maya, smallpox, and vaccination campaigns
  • On sacred ground : cholera, burial rites, and cemetery management
  • Cholera and the caste war : civilizing campaigns and disease prevention
  • Modernizing the periphery : henequen, the caste war, and yellow fever
  • Disease prevention, the Rockefeller Foundation, and revolution in Yucatán, 1915-24
  • Conclusion : outsiders, disease, and public health in modern Yucatán, Mexico
  • Afterword : H1N1 and the legacy of uncertainty.

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