Title Medicine and public health in Latin America : a history / Marcos Cueto, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Steven Palmer, University of Windsor, Ontario.

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New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

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University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	362.1098 C965M	Check Shelf

Description	ix, 306 pages ; 24 cm.
Series	New approaches to the Americas
	New approaches to the Americas.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary	"Despite several studies on the social, cultural, and political histories of medicine and of public health in different parts of Latin America and the Caribbean, local and national focuses still predominate, and there are few panoramic studies that analyze the overarching tendencies in the development of health in the region. This comprehensive book summarizes the social history of medicine, medical education, and public health in Latin America and places it in dialogue with the international historiographical currents in medicine and health. Ultimately, this text provides a clear, broad, and provocative synthesis of the history of Latin American medical developments while illuminating the recent challenges of global health in the region and other developing countries"--Provided by publisher.
Contents	Indigenous medicine, official health, medical pluralism -- National medicines and sanitarian states -- Making national and international health -- Medical innovation in the twentieth century -- Primary health care, neoliberal response, and global health in Latin America -- Conclusion.
Subject	Public health -- Latin America -- History.
	Medical care -- Latin America -- History.
	Medical policy -- Latin America -- History.
	Public Health -- history.
	Delivery of Health Care -- history.
	Health Policy -- history.
	International Cooperation -- history.
	History, 16th Century.
	History, Modern 1601-
	Latin America.
	Medical care. (OCoLC)fst01013753
	Medical policy. (OCoLC)fst01014505
	Public health. (OCoLC)fst01082238
	Latin America. (OCoLC)fst01245945
	Medizin. (DE-588)4038243-6
	Medizinische Versorgung. (DE-588)4038270-9
	Gesundheitspolitik. (DE-588)4113743-7
	Entwicklungshilfe. (DE-588)4014948-1
	Volksmedizin. (DE-588)4078940-8
	Lateinamerika. (DE-588)4074032-8
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author	Palmer, Steven Paul, author.
ISBN	9781107023673 (hardback ;) (alk. paper)
	110702367X (hardback ;) (alk. paper)
	9781107633018 (paperback ;) (alk. paper)
	110763301X (paperback ;) (alk. paper)

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