Disease in the History of Modern Latin America: From Malaria to AIDS

by Diego Armus (Author)

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  Paperback
  2003

  $35.29

  Challenging traditional approaches to medical history, this work advances understandings of disease as a social and cultural construction in Latin America. It provides a look at the research in the history of medicine through essays about how disease was experienced and managed in different Latin American countries and regions, at different times.