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The Return of Epidemics - Health and Society in Peru during the Twentieth Century (Hardcover, New edition)
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The Return of Epidemics - Health and Society in Peru during the Twentieth Century (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: The History of Medicine in Context
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Historians have long recognized epidemics to be a significant,
though sometimes hidden, factor in the fortunes of societies and
civilizations. The study of epidemics heightens our understanding
of relationships between economic systems and living conditions. It
illuminates the ideologies and religious beliefs of the affected
community and illustrates the efforts and inadequacies of public
health systems. This investigation of the history of epidemics in
various parts of Peru during the twentieth century opens up a new
field for Latin American studies to include health and disease.
These are important areas of the past that enable us to understand
better the living conditions of people, the role of state authority
and the dynamics of social movement. Marcos Cueto examines five
series of epidemics: the bubonic plague of 1903-1930; the fever
epidemic of 1919-1922; the typhus and small pox epidemics in the
Andes; attempts to control and eradicate malaria, and the cholera
epidemics of 1991. In each case he studies the biological and
ecological factors that caused the outbreak, and the techniques and
policies applied to fight it, together with the response of the
affected society. The experience of epidemics in Peru has been
cyclical. Poverty breeds disease which in turn results in further
poverty. One of the aims of this study is to highlight areas of
success and failure in the fight against epidemics in the hope that
such awareness may help break this vicious circle.
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