Title Enlightened immunity : Mexico's experiments with disease prevention in the Age of Reason / Paul F. Ramírez

Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 358 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Stanford scholarship online Stanford scholarship online Contents Introduction : Minerva's children -- Devotions of affliction : the dramaturgy of colonial epidemics -- Periodically healthy : the nature of medicine and the fashion of science -- "Massacre of the innocents" : preventing smallpox, 1796-1798 -- The gift of immunity : domesticating techniques -- Republics of vaccinators : everyday expertise through the insurgency -- Medicine's malcontents : an oral history Summary "In eighteenth-century Mexico, outbreaks of typhus and smallpox brought ordinary residents together with administrators, priests, and doctors to restore stability and improve the population's health. This book traces the monumental shifts in preventive medicine and public health measures that ensued. Reconstructing the cultural, ritual, and political background of Mexico's early experiments with childhood vaccines, Paul Ramírez steps back to consider how the design of public health programs was thoroughly enmeshed with religion and the church, the spread of Enlightenment ideas about medicine and the body, and the customs and healing practices of indigenous villages. Ramírez argues that it was not only educated urban elites--doctors and men of science--whose response to outbreaks of disease mattered. Rather, the cast of protagonists crossed ethnic, gender, and class lines: local officials who decided if and how to execute plans that came from Mexico City, rural priests who influenced local practices, peasants and artisans who reckoned with the consequences of quarantine, and parents who decided if they would allow their children to be handed over to vaccinators. By following the multiethnic and multiregional production of medical knowledge in colonial Mexico, Enlightened Immunity explores fundamental questions about trust, uncertainty, and the role of religion in a moment of discovery and innovation"--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 20, 2018) Subject Public health -- Mexico -- History -- 18th century Public health -- Mexico -- History -- 19th century Epidemics -- Mexico -- History -- 18th century Epidemics -- Mexico -- History -- 19th century Vaccination -- Mexico -- History -- 18th century Vaccination -- Mexico -- History -- 19th century Public Health -- history POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico Epidemics Public health Vaccination SUBJECT Mexico Subject Mexico Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book LC no. 2017059181 ISBN 9781503605800 1503605809

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