{"product_id":"enlightened-immunity-mexicos-experiments-with-disease-prevention-in-the-age-of-reason-hardback-9781503604339","title":"Enlightened Immunity; Mexico's Experiments with Disease Prevention in the Age of Reason (Hardback) 9781503604339","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEnlightened Immunity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMexico's Experiments with Disease Prevention in the Age of Reason\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePaul Ramírez (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503604339\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 28 August 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e376 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.602 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eEnlightened Immunity\u003c\/i\u003e is the sort of book that should shape our field: a deeply researched, wholly original, and well-executed study with something important to say. Ramírez deftly illuminates multiple contexts that shaped responses to epidemic disease in New Spain, including Atlantic communities of learning, political networks, and local knowledge.\"—Karen Melvin, Bates College \"In rich and imaginative prose, \u003ci\u003eEnlightened Immunity\u003c\/i\u003e immerses readers in the highly mediated world of preventive health in late colonial Mexico, with its smells of candle wax in processions, the sound of trumpets heralding the arrival of vaccine, the cookies and coins given the poor to entice their cooperation, the rumors and political rituals, indigenous vaccinators, barbers and clerics. This is a tour de force—a great read with great insight into the history of inoculation and vaccination, the immense complexities of suffering in late colonial Mexico, and the confusion and contradictions of the ordinary and extraordinary attempts to prevent it.\"—Steven Palmer, University of Windsor \"[An] original and meticulous examination of the problems of disease, medical practice, scientific developments, health care, and natural remedies during late eighteenth and early nineteenth century in New Spain.\u003ci\u003eEnlightened Immunity\u003c\/i\u003e is a provocative, richly documented, and innovative contribution to the social history of medicine, public health, science, and technology in Latin America.\"––Claudia Agostoni, \u003ci\u003eH-LatAm\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eEnlightened Immunity\u003c\/i\u003e is a stellar addition to the history of medicine in Mexico and Latin America....The author uses the notes to elucidate the text, and the secondary research is outstanding. Ramírez uses an erudite prose and a 'thick' analysis that will make this book essential reading on the history of medicine in Latin America for years to come.\"—David Sowell, \u003ci\u003eThe American Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e \"Paul Ramírez presents a novel picture of the inoculation campaign in New Spain....The story he tells, chronologically broader and socially denser than many histories of the vaccination campaign, challenges some of the more entrenched binaries—expert knowledge versus vernacular knowledge, science versus religion, rationality versus superstition—that have framed the historiography of colonial Spanish science.\"—Miruna Achim, \u003ci\u003eHispanic American Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eEnlightened Immunity\u003c\/i\u003e is an impressively researched work that weaves together the history of medicine, intellectual history, and religious history... Ramírez tells a story that rings as true today as it did at the turn of the nineteenth century.\"—Liana DeMarco, \u003ci\u003eJournal of the History of Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e \"What makes Ramírez's account of preventative medicine and public health in colonial-era Mexico so incisive is its deliberate problematizing of any clear distinctions between urban and rural, secular and religious, and elite and vernacular toward a thick history of how 'heterogeneous voices shaped debate'.\"—Travis Chi Wing Lau, \u003ci\u003eEighteenth-Century Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eEnlightened Immunity\u003c\/i\u003ereveals the inadequacy of medical histories that focus only on the perceptions and intentions of scientific and political authorities, and overlook how preventative treatments and cures are applied (or misapplied, or not applied) among flesh-and-blood communities.\"—Peter B. Villella, \u003ci\u003eLatin American Research Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn eighteenth-century Mexico, outbreaks of typhus and smallpox brought ordinary residents together with administrators, priests, and doctors to restore stability and improve the population's health. This book traces the monumental shifts in preventive medicine and public health measures that ensued. Reconstructing the cultural, ritual, and political background of Mexico's early experiments with childhood vaccines, Paul Ramírez steps back to consider how the design of public health programs was thoroughly enmeshed with religion and the church, the spread of Enlightenment ideas about medicine and the body, and the customs and healing practices of indigenous villages.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRamírez argues that it was not only educated urban elites—doctors and men of science—whose response to outbreaks of disease mattered. Rather, the cast of protagonists crossed ethnic, gender, and class lines: local officials who decided if and how to execute plans that came from Mexico City, rural priests who influenced local practices, peasants and artisans who reckoned with the consequences of quarantine, and parents who decided if they would allow their children to be handed over to vaccinators. By following the multiethnic and multiregional production of medical knowledge in colonial Mexico, \u003ci\u003eEnlightened Immunity\u003c\/i\u003e explores fundamental questions about trust, uncertainty, and the role of religion in a moment of discovery and innovation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: Minerva's Children\u003cbr\u003e  1. Devotions of Affliction: The Dramaturgy of Colonial Epidemics\u003cbr\u003e  2. Periodically Healthy: The Nature of Medicine and the Fashion of Science\u003cbr\u003e  3. \"\u003cbr\u003eMassacre of the Innocents\"\u003cbr\u003e: Preventing Smallpox, 1796–1798\u003cbr\u003e  4. The Gift of Immunity: Domesticating Techniques\u003cbr\u003e  5. Republics of Vaccinators: Everyday Expertise through the Insurgency\u003cbr\u003e  6. Medicine's Malcontents: An Oral History\u003cbr\u003e  Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52610588246296,"sku":"9781503604339","price":50.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/enlightened-immunity-mexicos-experiments-with-disease-prevention-in-the-age-of-reason-hardback-9781503604339","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}