Healthcare in Latin America

“Bridges a significant gap in scholarship focused on Healthcare in Latin America. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the essays demonstrate the significant role healthcare and public health programs played in the construction of nation-states, identity, international relations, migration, and dissemination of scientific knowledge throughout Latin America.”—Heather McCrea, author of Diseased Relations: Epidemics, Public Health, and State-Building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1847-1924“Superb work suitable for scholars and students interested in questions of public health, disability, and sexuality across Latin America and in the Latinx community in the United States.”—Rebecca Janzen, author of Unholy Trinity: State, Church, and Film in Mexico

David S. Dalton, associate professor of Spanish at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, is the author of Mestizo Modernity: Race, Technology, and the Body in Postrevolutionary Mexico.

Douglas J. Weatherford, professor of Hispanic literature and film at Brigham Young University, is the translator of Juan Rulfo’s The Golden Cockerel & Other Writings.