Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2019
Published In
Latin American Research Review
Abstract
This essay reviews the following works:
Medicine and Nation Building in the Americas, 1890–1940. By José Amador. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2015. Pp. ix + 219. $39.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780826520210.
Medicine and Public Health in Latin America: A History. By Marcos Cueto and Steven Palmer. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. ix + 306. $32.99 paperback. ISBN: 9781107633018.
A History of Family Planning in Twentieth-Century Peru. By Raúl Necochea López. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. Pp. xii + 234. $37.50 paperback. ISBN: 9781469618081.
Progressive Mothers, Better Babies: Race, Public Health, and the State in Brazil, 1850–1945. By Okezi T. Otovo. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016. Pp. x + 273. $29.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781477309056.
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Recommended Citation
Diego Armus.
(2019).
"Disease/Health/Medicine/History: On The Consolidation Of A Subfield Of Study".
Latin American Research Review.
Volume 54,
Issue 4.
1065-1071.
DOI: 10.25222/larr.1102
https://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-history/512
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