Enlightened Immunity Mexico's Experiments with Disease Prevention in the Age of Reason【電子書籍】[ Paul Ram?rez ]

＜p＞In eighteenth-century Mexico, outbreaks of typhus and smallpox brought ordinary residents together with administrators, priests, and doctors to restore stability and improve the population's health. This book traces the monumental shifts in preventive medicine and public health measures that ensued. Reconstructing the cultural, ritual, and political background of Mexico's early experiments with childhood vaccines, Paul Ram?rez steps back to consider how the design of public health programs was thoroughly enmeshed with religion and the church, the spread of Enlightenment ideas about medicine and the body, and the customs and healing practices of indigenous villages.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Ram?rez argues that it was not only educated urban elitesーdoctors and men of scienceーwhose response to outbreaks of disease mattered. Rather, the cast of protagonists crossed ethnic, gender, and class lines: local officials who decided if and how to execute plans that came from Mexico City, rural priests who influe．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る