Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2011
Published In
The Oxford Handbook Of Latin American History
Abstract
This article focuses on three overlapping trends in the historical study of human responses to illness, labeled as “new history of medicine, history of public health, and sociocultural history of disease.” The topics range from colonial epidemiology and pharmacopoeia to twentieth-century public health institutions and urban hygiene. But a consistent focus on the social, cultural, and symbolic components of diseases and cures unifies this historiography and distinguishes it from the narrower scope of the long-established field of the history of medicine.
Keywords
historiography, illness, human response, public health, sociocultural history, colonial epidemiology, pharmacopoeia
Published By
Oxford University Press
Editor(s)
J. C. Moya
Recommended Citation
Diego Armus and A. López Denis.
(2011).
"Disease, Medicine And Health".
The Oxford Handbook Of Latin American History.
424-453.
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195166217.013.0016
https://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-history/271
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