Facets

2009

#9975

Health and medicine in the circum-Caribbean, 1800–1968. Edited by Juanita De Barros, Steven Palmer and David Wright.

2009

#10443

Chocolate in Mesoamerica: A cultural history of cacao. Edited by Cameron L. McNeil.

2009

#12824

Flora: The Aztec herbal. Edited by Martin Clayton, Luigi Guerrini, and Alejandro de Ávila. (The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Series B: Natural History (HMPMB 8))

"This volume catalogues Cassiano dal Pozzo’s copy of the Codex Cruz-Badianus, an Aztec herbal prepared for the son of the Viceroy of Mexico in 1552 and the earliest medical text to have survived from the New World. Th…

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.

2010

#9389

Mosquito empires: Ecology and war in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914.

"explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean - the landscapes lying between Surinam and the Chesapeake - in the seventeenth through early twentieth cen…

2011

#7939

Historia de la medicina en el Paraguay.

2011

#7940

The ailing city: Health, tuberculosis, and culture in Buenos Aires, 1870-1950.

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 …

2013

#8286

Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin's American plants: Botanical expedition to the Caribbean (1754-1759) and the publication of the Selectarum stirpium Americanarum historia.

2013

#12219

Partnership for excellence: Medicine at the University of Toronto and academic hospitals.

A history of medicine and medical discoveries made at these Canadian hospitals.

2014

#7837

Border medicine: A transcultural history of Mexican American curanderismo.

2014

#7936

Science in the vanished arcadia: Knowledge of nature in the Jesuit missions of Paraguay and Rio de La Plata.

An overview of Jesuit scientific production in Paraguay during the 17th and 18th centuries, including natural history, medicine, cartography, astronomy, and practical science.

2014

#7937

Historia de la medicina Argentina: Desde la dominación hispánica hasta la actualidad.

2014

#13530

The black doctors of colonial Lima: Science, race, and writing in colonial and early Republican Peru.

"In this groundbreaking study on the intersection of race, science, and politics in colonial Latin America, José Jouve Martín explores the reasons why the city of Lima, in the decades that preceded the wars of indepen…

2015

#7942

Medicine and public health in Latin America: A history.

2015

#8007

For All of Humanity: Mesoamerican and colonial medicine in enlightenment Guatemala.

2015

#10275

A Cree healer and his medicine bundle: Revelations of indigenous wisdom: Healing plants, practices, and stories.

"With the rise of urban living and the digital age, many North American healers are recognizing that traditional medicinal knowledge must be recorded before being lost with its elders. A Cree Healer and His Medicine B…

2015

#12130

Medicine on the periphery: Public health in Yucatán, Mexico, 1870-1960.

2016

#10662

Progressive mothers, better babies, race, public health, and the state in Brazil, 1850-1945.

2016

#10942

Wolbachia blocks currently circulating Zika virus isololates in Brazilian Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Dutra, Rocha, Moreira. The authors infected lab populations of mosquitos with Wolbachia pipientis, a common parasitic microbe that infects a high proportion of insects. They …

2016

#11013

The General: A history of the Montreal General Hospital.

2016

#11794

The wounded brain healed: The golden age of the Montreal Neurological Institute, 1934–1984.

2016

#12803

Ethnobotany of Mexico: Interactions of people and plants in Mesoamerica. Edited by Rafael Lira, Alejandro Casas, José Blancas.

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

#10665

The experiential Caribbean: Creating knowledge and healing in the early modern Atlantic.

"Opening a window on a dynamic realm far beyond imperial courts, anatomical theaters, and learned societies, Pablo F. Gómez examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative, experientially ba…

2017

#10666

Madhouse: Psychiatry and politics in Cuban history.

2017

#10945

Genomic epidemiology reveals multiple introductions of Zika virus into the United States.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Grubaugh, Ladner, Kraemer. The authors found that the Zika virus was introduced into Florida at least 4 times, but perhaps as many as 40 times, before it was detected, …

2017

#12587

Contested bodies: Pregnancy, childrearing, and slavery in Jamaica.

"It is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in female slaves' reproductive health after the British government banned the importation of Africans into its West Indian colonies in 1807. Howeve…

2018

#11051

Carving a niche: The medical profession in Mexico 1800-1870.

2018

#11436

The Caribbean and the medical imagination, 1764-1834. Slavery, disease and colonial modernity.

2018

#11474

Assembling the tropics: Science and medicine in Portugal's empire, 1450-1700.

2021

#14328

The gray zones of medicine: Healers & history in Latin America. Edited by Diego Armus & Pablo F. Gómez.