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For All of Humanity - Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala (Paperback)
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For All of Humanity - Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala (Paperback)
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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 apply
medical innovations to cure and prevent disease. Their efforts
included the first inoculations and vaccinations against smallpox,
new strategies to protect families and communities from typhus and
measles, and medical interventions into pregnancy and childbirth.
For All of Humanity examines the first public health campaigns in
Guatemala, southern Mexico, and Central America in the eighteenth
and early nineteenth centuries. Martha Few pays close attention to
Indigenous Mesoamerican medical cultures, which not only influenced
the shape and scope of those regional campaigns but also affected
the broader New World medical cultures. The author reconstructs a
rich and complex picture of the ways colonial doctors, surgeons,
Indigenous healers, midwives, priests, government officials, and
ordinary people engaged in efforts to prevent and control epidemic
disease. Few's analysis weaves medical history and ethnohistory
with social, cultural, and intellectual history. She uses
prescriptive texts, medical correspondence, and legal documents to
provide rich ethnographic descriptions of Mesoamerican medical
cultures, their practitioners, and regional pharmacopeia that came
into contact with colonial medicine, at times violently, during
public health campaigns.
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