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  • Medicine in Mexico

    From Aztec Herbs to Betatrons

    by Gordon Schendel, José Álvarez Amézquita, Miguel E. Bustamante ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    A witch doctor casting an evil spell in a steaming jungle village; a young medical-school graduate cleaning a machete wound in a rat-infested thatched hut; a world-renowned scientist doing research in Mexico City—all were part of the mid-twentieth century medical scene in Mexico, a country of great cultural, socioeconomic, and geographical contrasts.Gordon Schendel, in collaboration with Dr. José ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

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  • Modern Death

    How Medicine Changed the End of Life

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  • Abraham Lincoln and Mexico

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    This book by a noted Ph.D. historian is one of the best books available about historical relations between the United States and Mexico. It shines new light on reasons for the US invasion of Mexico in 1846, opposition by Abraham Lincoln and other politicians to the unjustified and unconstitutional decision by President Polk to go to war, the importance of the ensuing war against Mexico, the ... Read more

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  • Latin Eugenics in Comparative Perspective

    by Marius Turda, Aaron Gillette ...
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  • Facing Eugenics

    Reproduction, Sterilization, and the Politics of Choice

    by Erika Dyck ...
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  • The Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry

    A History of Misery and Medicine

    by John Paul Webster ...
    This account of the infamous asylum is "an excellent record of greed and corruption, but it is also a powerful testimonial to compassion and kindness" ( Hidden City).The Quaker City and its hospitals were pioneers in the field of mental health. Yet by the end of the nineteenth century, its institutions were crowded and patients lived in shocking conditions. The mentally ill were quartered with the ... Read more

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  • Portrait of a Young Painter

    Pepe Zuniga and Mexico City's Rebel Generation

    by Mary Kay Vaughan ...
    In Portrait of a Young Painter, the distinguished historian Mary Kay Vaughan adopts a biographical approach to understanding the culture surrounding the Mexico City youth rebellion of the 1960s. Her chronicle of the life of painter Pepe Zúñiga counters a literature that portrays post-1940 Mexican history as a series of uprisings against state repression, injustice, and social neglect that ... Read more

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  • Henri de Rothschild, 1872–1947

    Medicine and Theater

    by Harry W. Paul ...
    Series series The History of Medicine in Context
    Dr Henri de Rothschild was a fifth generation Rothschild and perhaps the most famous of the Paris Rothschilds of the fin-de-siècle period. A 'sleeping partner' of the bank and the non-drinking owner of Mouton-Rothschild, Henri spent much of his life building medical institutions and promoting scientific medicine, including the promotion of Ehrlich's Salvarsan to cure syphilis and the use of radium ... Read more

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    Lessons from Our Battles with Disease

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  • Rethinking modern prostheses in Anglo-American commodity cultures, 1820–1939

    Edited by Claire L. Jones ...
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  • Pueblos within Pueblos

    Tlaxilacalli Communities in Acolhuacan, Mexico, ca. 1272-1692

    by Benjamin Johnson ...
    Focusing on the specific case of Acolhuacan in the eastern Basin of Mexico, Pueblos within Pueblos is the first book to systematically analyze tlaxilacalli history over nearly four centuries, beginning with their rise at the dawn of the Aztec empire through their transformation into the “pueblos” of mid-colonial New Spain. Even before the rise of the Aztecs, commoners in pre-Hispanic central ... Read more

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