Medicine on the Periphery: Public Health in Yucatán, Mexico, 1870-1960

by David Sowell

Medicine on the Periphery traces the development of Yucat n's medical institutions, public health programs, healers, and changing disease environment from the 1870s through 1960. The biomedicalization of Yucat n's public health system is analyzed within the Atlantic medical community and the emerging revolutionary state of central Mexico.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 149851734X
• ISBN13: 9781498517348
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"