Monuments of Progress: Modernization and Public Health in Mexico City, 1876-1910 - Softcover

Agostoni, Claudia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870817345 ISBN 13: 9780870817342

Publisher: University Press of Colorado, 2003

Synopsis

A social and cultural history of public health in Mexico during the late 1800s and early 1900s. The book offers a fresh take on the history of medicine and public health by shifting away from the history of epidemic disease and heroic accounts of medical men and toward looking at public health in a broader social framework. It shows how new public health policies were instrumental in the 'modernisation' of Mexico. Adds to a small, but fast-growing body of literature, on the history of public health in Latin America and other developing areas of the world.

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About the Author

Born in Mexico City, Claudia Agostoni earned her Ph.D. in Latin American cultural studies from King's College London, University of London. She is currently a full-time researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and lectures in Latin American colonial history.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of Colorado
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870817345
• ISBN 13: 9780870817342
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 228