Martha Few
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For All of Humanity
Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala
By Martha Few
The University of Arizona Press
For All of Humanity examines the first public health campaigns in Guatemala, southern Mexico, and Central America in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It reconstructs a rich and complex picture of the ways colonial doctors, surgeons, Indigenous healers, midwives, priests, government officials, and ordinary people engaged in efforts to prevent and control epidemic disease.
Women Who Live Evil Lives
Gender, Religion, and the Politics of Power in Colonial Guatemala
By Martha Few
University of Texas Press
The lives and practices of mixed-race, Black, Spanish, and Maya women sorcerers, spell-casters, magical healers, and midwives in the capital of colonial Central America.
- Copyright year: 2002
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