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

Public Health and Beyond in Latin America and the Caribbean: Reflections from the Field explores the diverse and complex public health landscape, from global to

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

Brazil has occupied a central role in the access to medicines movement, especially with respect to drugs used to treat those with the human immunodeficiency vir

Health practitioners working in gray zones, or between official and unofficial medicines, played a fundamental role in shaping Latin America from the colonial p