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Heather McCrea

Professor McCrea, works on nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, focusing on medical, environmental and indigenous history. Her new book project, Gulf of Disease: Public Health in Latin America and the Invention of Trans-Caribbean Identity, explores public health in Latin America's tropics. Situated at the crossroads wherein medical science and empiricism merged with human suffering and environmental determinism, this project examines the formation of a tropical identity in tandem with the rise of tropical medicine and state-building through the lens of disease control campaigns during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the tropical ports of New Orleans, Veracruz, Progreso, Havana, Panama City, and Caracas. Select Publications: Diseased Relations: Epidemics, Public Health and State Building in Yucatán, Mexico 1848-1924 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2011), "Tentative Testimonies: Indigenous and Spanish Accounts of the Conquest and Colonization of New Spain 1100-1650," in Converging Worlds: Communities and Cultures in Colonial America, ed. Louise Breen (New York: Routledge), forthcoming spring 2012.

  • Diseased Relations

    January 19, 2013

    http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11914715-diseased-relations Diseased Relations: Epidemics, Public Health, and State-Building in Yucatan, Mexico, 1847-1924 by Heather McCrea   Throughout…

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