New Trends in the History of Health and Illness in Latin America

This mini-conference takes stock of the exciting new scholarship on the history of health and illness in Latin America. Drawing from their own research, three leading scholars discuss how the history of science and medicine has opened up new themes and avenues in Latin American history and intersects with urban history, gender and sexuality studies, colonial and postcolonial studies, social, cultural, and global history.Co-sponsors: Center for the History of Medicine;Science, Technology and Society Program; Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, School of Public Health

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