Gray Zones of Medicine (eBook)

Healers and History in Latin America

Diego Armus, Pablo F. Gomez (Herausgeber)

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2021
388 Seiten
University of Pittsburgh Press (Verlag)
978-0-8229-8843-4 (ISBN)

Infos

<b>A </b><b>R</b><b>elatable, </b><b>C</b><b>omplex </b><b>E</b><b>xamination of the </b><b>H</b><b>istory of </b><b>H</b><b>ealth and </b><b>H</b><b>ealing in Latin America across </b><b>F</b><b>ive </b><b>C</b><b>enturies</b>

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Health practitioners working in gray zones, or between official and unofficial medicines, played a fundamental role in shaping Latin America from the colonial period onward. <i>The Gray Zones of Medicine</i> offers a human, relatable, complex examination of the history of health and healing in Latin America across five centuries. Contributors uncover how biographical narratives of individual actorsoutside those of hegemonic biomedical knowledge, careers of successful doctors, public health initiatives, and research and medical institutionscan provide a unique window into larger social, cultural, political, and economic historical changes and continuities in the region. They reveal the power of such stories to illuminate intricacies and resilient features of the history of health and disease, and they demonstrate the importance of escaping analytical constraints posed by binary frameworks of legality/illegality, learned/popular, and orthodoxy/heterodoxy when writing about the past. Through an accessible and story-like format, this book unlocks the potential of historical narratives of healings to understand and give nuance to processes too frequently articulated through intellectual medical histories or the lenses of empires, nation-states, and their institutions.

Autor

<b>Diego Armus (Editor) </b><br> <b>Diego Armus </b>is professor of Latin American history at Swarthmore. He is author or editor of half a dozen books on topics related to the history of disease and health, among them <i>The Ailing City: Health, Tuberculosis and Culture in Buenos Aires, 1870–1950 </i>and <i>Disease in the History of Modern Latin America: From Malaria to AIDS</i>.<br><br><b>Pablo F. Gómez (Editor) </b><br> <b>Pablo F. Gómez </b>is associate professor in the Department of Medical History and Bioethics and the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Gómez’s first book, <i>The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic</i>, explores belief making and the creation of evidence around the human body and the natural world in the early modern Caribbean.<b></b><br><br>

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.9.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 14 b&w illustrations
• Verlagsort: PIttsburgh
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: decolonizing medicine • historical narratives of medicine • history of healing in Latin America • history of medicine in Latin America • Latin American healers
• ISBN-10: 0-8229-8843-7 / 0822988437
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-8843-4 / 9780822988434