Medicine and Public Health in Latin America - A History

Informationen zum Autor Marcos Cueto is a professor at Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, in Rio de Janeiro; co-editor of the journal História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinho; and a researcher at Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Lima, where he served as director-general from 2009 to 2011. Steven Palmer is Associate Professor of History and Canada Research Chair in History of International Health at the University of Windsor, Ontario. Klappentext This book provides a clear, broad, and provocative synthesis of the history of Latin American medicine. Zusammenfassung This book serves as a concise and synthetic history of medicine and health in Latin America from 1492 to the present! summarizing the social history of medicine! medical education! and public health in Latin America and placing it in dialogue with the international historiographical currents in medicine and health. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Indigenous medicine, official health, and medical pluralism; 2. National medicines and sanitarian states; 3. Making national and international health; 4. Medical innovation in the twentieth century; 5. Primary health care, neoliberal response, and global health in Latin America; 6. Conclusion.

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• Authors: Marcos Cueto, Marcos (Fundacao ''Oswaldo Cruz'' Cueto, Marcos (Fundacao 'Oswaldo Cruz' Cueto, Marcos Palmer Cueto, Cueto Marcos, Steven Palmer, Steven (University of Windsor Palmer
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2014
• EAN: 9781107023673
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02367-3
• No. of pages: 318
• Series: New Approaches to the Americas; New Approaches to the Americas
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History, HISTORY / Latin America / General, History of Medicine, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, History of the Americas, Health systems and services