Facets

1965

#7933

Epidemic disease in Mexico City 1761-1813: An administrative, social, and medical study.

1992

#8005

Enfermedad y sociedad en la crisis colonial del antiguo régimen: Nueva Granada en el tránsito del siglo XVIII al XIX, las epidemias de viruelas.

1995

#10083

Aboriginal health in Canada: Historical, cultural, and epidemiological perspectives.

Revised second edition, same publisher, 2006.

1998

#9901

Santé et société esclavagiste à la Martinique.

2001

#10193

Medicine that Walks: Disease, medicine, and Canadian Plains native people, 1880-1940.

"... Lux takes issue with the 'biological invasion' theory of the impact of disease on Plains Aboriginal people. She challenges the view that Aboriginal medicine was helpless to deal with the diseases brought by Europ…

2003

#8008

From popular medicine to medical populism: Doctors, healers, and public power in Costa Rica, 1800–1940.

2003

#10183

A pest in the land: New World epidemics in a global perspective.

2007

#7835

Unequal cures: Public health and political change in Bolivia, 1900-1950,

2008

#8080

National health insurance in the United States and Canada: Race, territory, and the roots of difference.

Explores why two countries that were very similar in many ways, struck out on radically divergent paths to public health insurance. Canada developed a universal single-payer system of national health care, while the U…

2008

#10082

Health transitions in Arctic populations. Edited by T. Kue Young and Peter Bjerregaard.

Concerns indigenous and non-indigenous people in five Arctic regions: Greenland, Northern Canada, Alaska, Arctic Russia, and Northern Fennoscandia (Scandinavia).

2010

#7834

Medicine and politics in colonial Peru: Population growth and the Bourbon reforms.

2010

#8009

Healing the body politic: El Salvador's popular struggle for health rights from civil war to neoliberal peace.

2012

#8093

Making Medicare: New perspectives on the history of Medicare in Canada.

2012

#12131

Revolutionary medicine: Health and the body in post-Soviet Cuba.

"Until the Soviet bloc collapsed in 1989, socialist Cuba encouraged citizens to view access to health care as a human right and the state's responsibility to provide it as a moral imperative. Since the loss of Soviet …

2017

#9714

Reasoning against madness: Psychiatry and the state in Rio de Janeiro, 1830-1944.

2017

#10539

Making medicines in early colonial Lima, Peru: Apothecaries, science and society.

2017

#10666

Madhouse: Psychiatry and politics in Cuban history.