... most dangerous threats to public health. This chapter also provides a brief analysis of insular politics during the early 1930s, particularly the election of 1932 and the great period of labor unrest that followed, including the large strike wave of 1933 and 1934. Florida Guayama Houses and housing...

... working-class neighborhoods and resettle them into newly constructed houses and apartments. Door-to-door surveys of barriada residents conducted in Spanish by PRRA social workers offered public health officials and urban planners in Puerto Rico insight into daily life among the island’s most vulnerable...

..., and how anthropologists can contribute to demographic and public health research by investigating inequalities and care provisioning as well as training the future geriatric workforce. Anthropologists using a variety of theoretical perspectives have already begun this important work, but we encourage more...

... argued contained, “All the original romance of America.” Building on scholarship that complicates this notion of the quintessentially American nature of the genre, chapter 3 reads three women’s slave narratives, which demonstrate how epistemologies of health and tensions between colony and nation...

...This chapter evaluates the human-capital development and social service policies of the Toledo administration in core policy areas such as education, health care, and housing—building blocks for the president's development chain. Among other programs, this chapter looks at Project Huascarán...

...This chapter describes a case study concerning ethnic diversity in reproductive health behavior in the Ch'orti' area in eastern Guatemala. It examines the use of family planning and pregnancy-related care as indicators of reproductive health behavior among different ethnic groups and suggests...

..., and being rubbed with dripping sheets, and that he varied these combinations every three to six weeks. Although he never found a combination of hydropathy that freed him from flatulence, he came to accept the limitations and benefits of hydropathy. Darwin kept up his health diary through to January 1855...

... of statements about Darwin's health that are either untrue or only partially true. The chapter then reviews what is known about Darwin's taking of arsenic. Darwin's Victorian Malady Evidence for Its Medically Induced Origin Fowler's solution Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society Winslow John H...

... information and outlines a new anti-homophobia social marketing campaign targeted specifically to Latinos. This campaign was created and designed by the Hispanic Health Council based on extensive feedback from the community. African Americans drugs epidemics epidemiology Hispanic Health Council HIV...

...This chapter quantifies and compares mortuary pattern grammars and skeletal health markers between the sites of Xipo (Yangshao culture, a Middle Neolithic chiefdom ca. 4000–3000 B.C.) and Xiyasi (a site participating in the state-level, stratified Eastern Zhou dynasty ca. 770–221 B.C.). At Xipo...

...Chapter 2 examines three health issues that drew the attention of rightist women: fluoridation of public water systems, mental health programs, and polio vaccinations. In regard to both fluoridation and polio vaccination, rightist women feared that they were detrimental to Americans’ health...

... Islands were examined to test for a correlation between intentionally modified teeth and two indicators of oral-dental health: caries and periapical abscesses. Although differences in data collection methods and poor bone preservation prevented the use of both indicators across the board, preliminary...

.... This chapter explores the dental appearance, health risks, social roles, and procedures related to dental filings and inlays among the ancient Maya. To this end, skeletal data, portraiture, and ethnographic information from the Maya Lowlands were surveyed. The results show that the majority of adult dentitions...

... healthcare as a means to pollical legitimacy. This anthology, as the introduction suggests, explores the development and representation of public health throughout Latin America while offering readers a glimpse into the diverse academic fields that intersect through global health studies, including history...

... doctors with precolonial ritual specialists, the colonial Protomedicato and university with their limited reach, the sanitary boards and medical schools in independent Mexico with the persistence of domestic medicine and the rise of empirics, twentieth-century public health programs with the persistence...

...Katherine Bliss shows that approaches to health in Mexico over the last century reflect a consistent emphasis on health services as an engine of economic development and a source of popular political support. With employment-based insurance schemes in place since the 1940s, Mexico’s health programs...

...Chapter 4 describes the state of health of Kamarina from the perspective of science. It begins with a description of how indicators of disease are detected in the archaeological record. This introductory section is followed by a discussion of the Kamarinean plague (ca. 405 BCE) and evidence...

...This chapter thematically summarizes the conclusions of the preceding study of Kamarina’s Passo Marinaro necropolis in Sicily. In particular, details regarding burial customs, demographic trends, state of health, ancestry and ethnicity, social status, and magical and eschatological beliefs...

...This chapter describes examples of liberation priests involved in various community efforts that empowered the Maya to confront their crisis, especially by literacy, health, or cooperative programs. These efforts led to a conversion experience that changed their worldviews of Catholicism...

...James Joyce apparently had ample reason to see analogies between the progress of his health and his avant-garde novel. Both troubled him exceedingly in the years from 1917 to 1922. However, Joyce's statement also hints at another parallel between Ulysses and his physical condition...