Journal article
Globalizing the history of disease, medicine, and public health in Latin America
Isis, Vol.104(4), pp.798-806
12/2013
DOI: 10.1086/674946
PMID: 24783496
Abstract
The history of Latin America, the history of disease, medicine, and public health, and global history are deeply intertwined, but the intersection of these three fields has not yet attracted sustained attention from historians. Recent developments in the historiography of disease, medicine, and public health in Latin America suggest, however, that a distinctive, global approach to the topic is beginning to emerge. This essay identifies the distinguishing characteristic of this approach as an attentiveness to transfers of contagions, cures, and medical knowledge from Latin America to the rest of the world and then summarizes a few episodes that demonstrate its promise. While national as well as colonial and neocolonial histories of Latin America have made important contributions to our understanding, works taking the global approach have the potential to contribute more directly to the decentering of the global history of disease, medicine, and public health.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Globalizing the history of disease, medicine, and public health in Latin America
- Creators
- Mariola Espinosa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Isis, Vol.104(4), pp.798-806
- DOI
- 10.1086/674946
- PMID
- 24783496
- NLM abbreviation
- Isis
- ISSN
- 0021-1753
- eISSN
- 1545-6994
- Publisher
- United States
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/2013
- Academic Unit
- History; Interdisciplinary Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9983920519402771
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