Ann Zulawski

Unequal Cures

Public Health and Political Change in Bolivia, 1900-1950

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First systematic medical history of Bolivia for the 20th century, viewing political change from the perspective of public health.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780822339007
• ISBN-10: 0822339005
• Artikelnr.: 22519923

Autorenporträt

Ann Zulawski

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations viii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1 Hygiene and the “Indian Problem”: Ethnicity and Medicine in the Early
Twentieth Century 21
2 The Medical Crisis of the Chaco War 52
3 The Rockefeller Foundation in Bolivia, 1932-1952 86
4 Women and Public Health, 1920s-1940s 118
5 Mental Illness and Democracy: The Manicomio Pacheco 157
Conclusion 190
Notes 197
Bibliography 225
Index 243