| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 358 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Minerva's children -- Devotions of affliction : the dramaturgy of colonial epidemics -- Periodically healthy : the nature of medicine and the fashion of science -- "Massacre of the innocents" : preventing smallpox, 1796-1798 -- The gift of immunity : domesticating techniques -- Republics of vaccinators : everyday expertise through the insurgency -- Medicine's malcontents : an oral history. |
| Summary |
"In eighteenth-century Mexico, outbreaks of typhus and smallpox brought ordinary residents together with administrators, priests, and doctors to restore stability and improve the population's health. This book traces the monumental shifts in preventive medicine and public health measures that ensued. Reconstructing the cultural, ritual, and political background of Mexico's early experiments with childhood vaccines, Paul Ramírez steps back to consider how the design of public health programs was thoroughly enmeshed with religion and the church, the spread of Enlightenment ideas about medicine and the body, and the customs and healing practices of indigenous villages. Ramírez argues that it was not only educated urban elites--doctors and men of science--whose response to outbreaks of disease mattered. Rather, the cast of protagonists crossed ethnic, gender, and class lines: local officials who decided if and how to execute plans that came from Mexico City, rural priests who influenced local practices, peasants and artisans who reckoned with the consequences of quarantine, and parents who decided if they would allow their children to be handed over to vaccinators. By following the multiethnic and multiregional production of medical knowledge in colonial Mexico, Enlightened Immunity explores fundamental questions about trust, uncertainty, and the role of religion in a moment of discovery and innovation"--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Public health -- Mexico -- History -- 18th century.
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Public health. |
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Mexico. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Public health -- Mexico -- History -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Epidemics -- Mexico -- History -- 18th century.
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Epidemics. |
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Epidemics -- Mexico -- History -- 19th century.
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Vaccination -- Mexico -- History -- 18th century.
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Vaccination. |
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Vaccination -- Mexico -- History -- 19th century.
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Mexico. |
| Chronological Term |
1700-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ramírez, Paul F. (Paul Francis). Enlightened immunity. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018 9781503604339 (DLC) 2017057766 (OCoLC)1015276642 |
| ISBN |
9781503605800 (electronic book) |
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1503605809 (electronic book) |
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9781503604339 (hardcover) |
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