Diseased relations : epidemics, public health, and state-building in Yucatan, Mexico, 1847-1924 / / Heather McCrea.
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 288 p. :; ill., maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : region, ethnography, and medicine in Yucatan, Mexico
- The politics of prevention : the Maya, smallpox, and vaccination campaigns
- On sacred ground : cholera, burial rites, and cemetery management
- Cholera and the caste war : civilizing campaigns and disease prevention
- Modernizing the periphery : henequen, the caste war, and yellow fever
- Disease prevention, the Rockefeller Foundation, and revolution in Yucatan, 1915-24
- Conclusion : outsiders, disease, and public health in modern Yucatan, Mexico
- Afterword : H1N1 and the legacy of uncertainty.