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Author: Heather McCrea
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 082634898X
Category: Medical

Diseased Relations: Epidemics, Public Health, and State-Building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1847-1924

Throughout recorded history, epidemics have touched every aspect of life, including commerce, travel, agriculture, religious ritual, education, and political campaigns. Download Diseased Relations medical books for free.
In the tropical region of YucatAn, Mexico, which hosted a plethora of diseases, the violent resistance of various Mayan groups to state exploitation created one of the least understood but most significant threats to Mexican rule since the Conquest. As protection of one's own health--as well as control over individual and collective bodies--came to be ingrained in the imagined community that elites sought to construct, public health campaigns became symbols of modernization and an extension of the state's efforts to remake "clean" citizens out of what some perceived as the fi Get Diseased Relations our bestseller medical books.

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As protection of one's own health--as well as control over individual and collective bodies--came to be ingrained in the imagined community that elites sought to construct, public health campaigns became symbols of modernization and an extension of the state's efforts to remake "clean" citizens out of what some perceived as the fi

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