DIVEdited volume that takes a non-traditional approach to the history of medicine in Latin America, and emphasizes the cultural and social construction of disea

Challenging traditional approaches to medical history, Disease in the History of Modern Latin America advances understandings of disease as a social and cultura

This book provides a clear, broad, and provocative synthesis of the history of Latin American medicine.

Winner, 2022 Outstanding Academic Title, CHOICE Awards Health practitioners working in gray zones, or between official and unofficial medicines, played a fundam

Of the more than 40 million people around the world currently living with HIV/AIDS, two million live in Latin America and the Caribbean. In an engaging chronicl