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Unequal Cures: Public Health and Political Change in Bolivia, 1900-1950

Unequal Cures: Public Health and Political Change in Bolivia, 1900-1950

Zulawski, Ann

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South American History

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ISBN10: 0822339005
ISBN13: 9780822339007
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jan 17 2007
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
Unequal Cures illuminates the connections between public health and political change in Bolivia from the beginning of the twentieth century, when the country was a political oligarchy, until the eve of the 1952 national revolution that ushered in universal suffrage, agrarian reform, and the nationalization of Bolivia's tin mines. Ann Zulawski examines both how the period's major ideological and social transformations changed medical thinking and how ideas of public health figured in debates about what kind of country Bolivia should become. Zulawski argues that the emerging populist politics of the 1930s and 1940s helped consolidate Bolivia's medical profession and that improved public health was essential to the creation of a modern state. Yet she finds that at mid-century, women, indigenous Bolivians, and the poor were still considered inferior and consequently received often inadequate medical treatment and lower levels of medical care.

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