Paul Ramírez

Enlightened Immunity

Mexico's Experiments with Disease Prevention in the Age of Reason

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Paul Ram¿z is Assistant Professor of History at Northwestern University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9781503604339
• ISBN-10: 1503604330
• Artikelnr.: 48863424

Autorenporträt

Paul Ramírez is Assistant Professor of History at Northwestern University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Minerva's Children
1. Devotions of Affliction: The Dramaturgy of Colonial Epidemics
2. Periodically Healthy: The Nature of Medicine and the Fashion of Science
3. "Massacre of the Innocents": Preventing Smallpox, 1796-1798
4. The Gift of Immunity: Domesticating Techniques
5. Republics of Vaccinators: Everyday Expertise through the Insurgency
6. Medicine's Malcontents: An Oral History
Conclusion