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Author:

McCrea, Heather L.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of New Mexico Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

xiv, 288 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Public health--Yucatán (State)--Yucatán (State)
Epidemics--Yucatán (State)--Yucatán (State)
Medical policy--Yucatán (State)--Yucatán (State)
Disease Outbreaks--history--Mexico.
Disease Outbreaks--prevention & control--Mexico.
History, 19th Century--Mexico.
History, 20th Century--Mexico.
Indians, North American--history--Mexico.
Social Medicine--history--Mexico.
State Government--Mexico.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

082634898X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780826348982 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)654029708

LCCN:

2010039360

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)