For All of Humanity: Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala

by Martha Few

Book Overview

Smallpox, measles, and typhus. The scourges of lethal disease--as threatening in colonial Mesoamerica as in other parts of the world--called for widespread efforts and enlightened attitudes to battle the centuries-old killers of children and adults. Even before edicts from Spain crossed the Atlantic, colonial elites oftentimes embraced medical experimentation and reform in the name of the public good, believing it was their moral responsibility to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816531870
• ISBN13: 9780816531875
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"