For All of Humanity: Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala

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Smallpox, measles, and typhus. The scourges of lethal disease--as threatening in colonial Mesoamerica as in other parts of the world--called for widespread efforts and enlightened attitudes to battle the centuries-old killers of children and adults. Even before edicts from Spain crossed the Atlantic, colonial elites oftentimes embraced medical experimentation and reform in the name of the public good, believing it was their moral responsibility to...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0816531870

ISBN13:9780816531875

Release Date:October 2015

Publisher:University of Arizona Press

Length:304 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"

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