Medicine In Mexico
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Medicine In Mexico
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Author : Gordon Schendel
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2014-11-06
Medicine In Mexico written by Gordon Schendel and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-06 with Medical categories.
A witch doctor casting an evil spell in a steaming jungle village; a young medical-school graduate cleaning a machete wound in a rat-infested thatched hut; a world-renowned scientist doing research in Mexico City—all were part of the mid-twentieth century medical scene in Mexico, a country of great cultural, socioeconomic, and geographical contrasts. Gordon Schendel, in collaboration with Dr. José Alvarez Amézquita and Dr. Miguel E. Bustamante, relates the history of medicine and public health and welfare in Mexico. This absorbing story begins with a great indigenous culture; continues with Spanish Colonial rule, the unproductive first century of independence from Spain, and the years of revolution; then concentrates on the modern nation. The Aztec civilization evidenced a knowledge of pharmacology and the fundamentals of health far in advance of contemporary European societies. And almost one hundred years before the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, New Spain boasted a comprehensive "Public Health Administration" and a hospital system that served all classes. However, throughout Mexico's three centuries as a Spanish colony and its first century of independence, millions of its citizens suffered abysmal poverty. Thus when the Republic of Mexico entered its post-Revolutionary era, the majority of its citizens were plagued by superstition, illiteracy, malnutrition, and the other "diseases of the poor." The principal part of this story tells how Mexico attacked these problems, and how in a few short years it became a leader and a model for all Latin America in the fields of medicine and public health and welfare. The book is based on Mr. Schendel's research and observations and on his many interviews with doctors and govemment officials. It will be of interest to the medical profession and to concerned laymen of all nationalities, for it illustrates how a dynamic nation met challenges that all countries of the world, developed and underdeveloped, must face.
Medical Choice In A Mexican Village
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Author : James Clay Young
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
Medical Choice In A Mexican Village written by James Clay Young and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Medical categories.
Medicine On The Periphery
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Author : David Sowell
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2015-10-30
Medicine On The Periphery written by David Sowell and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-30 with Health & Fitness categories.
Medicine on the Periphery traces the development of Yucatán’s medical institutions, public health programs, healers, and changing disease environment from the 1870s through 1960. The biomedicalization of Yucatán’s public health system is analyzed within the Atlantic medical community and the emerging revolutionary state of central Mexico.
Carving A Niche
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Author : Luz María Hernández Sáenz
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2018-02-21
Carving A Niche written by Luz María Hernández Sáenz and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-21 with History categories.
The beginning of the Mexican War of Independence in 1810 triggered radical political, social, and economic changes, including the reorganization of the medical profession. During this tumultuous period of transition, physicians and surgeons merged in an effort to monopolize the field and ensure their professional survival in a postcolonial, liberal republic. Carving a Niche traces the evolution of various medical occupations in Mexico from the end of the colonial period to the beginning of the regime of Porfirio Díaz, demonstrating how competition and collaboration, identity, ever-changing legislation, political instability, and foreign intervention resulted in a complex, gradual, and unique process of medical professionalization – one that neither conformed to theoretical models nor resembled hierarchies found in other parts of the world. Through extensive research, Luz María Hernández Sáenz analyzes the uphill struggle of practitioners to claim their place as public health experts and to provide and control medical education in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. Highlighting the significance of race, class, gender, and nationality, Carving a Niche demonstrates that in the case of Mexico, liberal reforms praised by traditional works often hindered, rather than promoted, the creation of a modern medical profession and the delivery of quality health care services.
Aztec Medicine Health And Nutrition
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Author : Bernard Ortiz de Montellano
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Aztec Medicine Health And Nutrition written by Bernard Ortiz de Montellano and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Aztecs categories.
Why were a handful of Spaniards able to overthrow the Aztec Empire? The dramatic destruction of the Aztecs has prompted historians, anthropologists, demographers, and epidemiologists to look closely at the health and nutrition of the Valley of Mexico. If the Aztecs were overcrowded, living at the edge of starvation, and incapable of treating disease effectivefly, then their decimation by the Europeans becomes much easier to undestand. Bernard Ortiz de Montellano argues that such hypotheses do not hold up. Rather, at the time of the Conquest, the Aztecs were a thriving, well-nourished, healthy people. The swift, brutal success of the conquistadors cannot be explained by the prior ill-health or medical incompetence of their victims. To support his case, Ortiz de Montellano uses an astonishing array of evidence gained from many disciplines. Ortiz de Montellano presents the most comprehensivve and detailed explanation of Aztec medical beliefs available in English. -- From publisher's description.
Tarahumara Medicine
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Author : Fructuoso Irigoyen-Rascón
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2015-10-13
Tarahumara Medicine written by Fructuoso Irigoyen-Rascón and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-13 with History categories.
The Tarahumara, one of North America’s oldest surviving aboriginal groups, call themselves Rarámuri, meaning “nimble feet”—and though they live in relative isolation in Chihuahua, Mexico, their agility in long-distance running is famous worldwide. Tarahumara Medicine is the first in-depth look into the culture that sustains the “great runners.” Having spent a decade in Tarahumara communities, initially as a medical student and eventually as a physician and cultural observer, author Fructuoso Irigoyen-Rascón is uniquely qualified as a guide to the Rarámuri’s approach to medicine and healing. In developing their healing practices, the Tarahumaras interlaced religious lore, magic, and careful observations of nature. Irigoyen-Rascón thoroughly situates readers in the Rarámuri’s environment, describing not only their health and nutrition but also the mountains and rivers surrounding them and key aspects of their culture, from long-distance kick-ball races to corn beer celebrations and religious dances. He describes the Tarahumaras’ curing ceremonies, including their ritual use of peyote, and provides a comprehensive description of Tarahumara traditional herbal remedies, including their botanical characteristics, attributed effects, and uses. To show what these practices—and the underlying concepts of health and disease—might mean to the Rarámuri and to the observer, Irigoyen-Rascón explores his subject from both an outsider and an insider (indigenous) perspective. Through his balanced approach, Irigoyen-Rascón brings to light relationships between the Rarámuri healing system and conventional medicine, and adds significantly to our knowledge of indigenous American therapeutic practices. As the most complete account of Tarahumara culture ever written, Tarahumara Medicine grants readers access to a world rarely seen—at once richly different from and inextricably connected with the ideas and practices of Western medicine.
The Royal Indian Hospital Of Mexico City
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Author : David A. Howard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
The Royal Indian Hospital Of Mexico City written by David A. Howard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Indians of Mexico categories.
Monuments Of Progress
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Author : Claudia Agostoni
language : en
Publisher: UNAM
Release Date : 2003
Monuments Of Progress written by Claudia Agostoni and has been published by UNAM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Ciudad de México categories.
A social and cultural history of public health in Mexico during the late 1800s and early 1900s. The book offers a fresh take on the history of medicine and public health by shifting away from the history of epidemic disease and heroic accounts of medical men and toward looking at public health in a broader social framework. It shows how new public health policies were instrumental in the 'modernisation' of Mexico. Adds to a small, but fast-growing body of literature, on the history of public health in Latin America and other developing areas of the world.
Learning To Heal
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Author : Luz María Hernández Sáenz
language : en
Publisher: New York : Peter Lang
Release Date : 1997
Learning To Heal written by Luz María Hernández Sáenz and has been published by New York : Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Medical education categories.
The professionalization of medicine in Mexico may be traced back to the eighteenth century when new European ideologies, organization of the Bourbon armies, and changing social values laid its foundations. This work examines the organization of the medical profession, the various branches of medicine, the beginnings of formal surgical education, and the role of women as practitioners. Contemporary treatments are also examined and the quality of medical service compared to that offered in Europe. The analysis of different practitioners and their patients offers a fascinating glimpse of late colonial Mexico while professional rivalry reflects the growing Criollo-peninsular antagonism that would lead to independence.
Folk Medicine And Medical Change In Guerrero Mexico
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Author : Roberto Perez
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Folk Medicine And Medical Change In Guerrero Mexico written by Roberto Perez and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Medicine categories.