Diseased relations epidemics, public health, and state-building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1847-1924 / [electronic resource] :
Heather McCrea.
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2010.
- xiv, 288 p. : ill., maps.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : region, ethnography, and medicine in Yucatán, Mexico -- The politics of prevention : the Maya, smallpox, and vaccination campaigns -- On sacred ground : cholera, burial rites, and cemetery management -- Cholera and the caste war : civilizing campaigns and disease prevention -- Modernizing the periphery : henequen, the caste war, and yellow fever -- Disease prevention, the Rockefeller Foundation, and revolution in Yucatán, 1915-24 -- Conclusion : outsiders, disease, and public health in modern Yucatán, Mexico -- Afterword : H1N1 and the legacy of uncertainty.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Public health--Mexico--Yucatán (State) Epidemics--Mexico--Yucatán (State) Medical policy--Mexico--Yucatán (State)