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Native society and disease in colonial Ecuador
Suzanne Austin Alchon
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments (page ix)
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Introduction (page 1)
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1 Along the avenue of volcanoes (page 5)
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The setting (page 5)
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Native society before 1534 (page 7)
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The Inca conquest (page 8)
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The native population before 1534 (page 12)
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2 Disease, illness, and healing before 1534 (page 19)
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The pathological setting (page 19)
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Native concepts of health and illness (page 25)
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Healing, ritual, and meaning (page 29)
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3 Conquest and epidemic disease in the sixteenth century (page 32)
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The Spanish conquest of Quito (page 32)
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Epidemics during the sixteenth century (page 35)
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Hospitals and public health (page 43)
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Demographic trends (page 46)
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4 Changing patterns of disease and demography in the seventeenth century (page 57)
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Disease and natural disasters (page 57)
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European medicine and public health (page 66)
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Changing concepts of disease in native society (page 72)
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Demographic recovery to 1690 (page 76)
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5 Disaster and crisis in the 1690s (page 89)
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The reforms of Palata, migration, and epidemics (page 89)
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The disasters of the 1690s (page 91)
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Demographic crisis (page 95)
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6 Disease and demographic stagnation in the eighteenth century (page 100)
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Epidemics and endemic disease (page 100)
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European medicine and public health (page 108)
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Demographic stagnation and economic depression (page 113)
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Native medicine and political resistance (page 124)
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Conclusion (page 130)
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Glossary (page 134)
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Bibliography (page 137)
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Index (page 149)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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HAHR | 73.4 (Nov. 1993): 694-695 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2516864 |
AHR | 97.5 (Dec. 1992): 1636-1637 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2166149 |
MAQ | 8.1 (Mar. 1994): 123-125 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/649003 |
BLAR | 12.1 (Jan. 1993): 112-113 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3338820 |
ETH | 40.3 (Summer. 1993): 486-487 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/481876 |
JLAS | 24.3 (Oct. 1992): 690-691 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/156784 |
ISIS | 84.2 (Jun. 1993): 383-384 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/236273 |
JIH | 24.1 (Summer. 1993): 194-196 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/205146 |
AHSS | 6 (Nov.-Dec. 1995): 1362-1365 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/27585078 |
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Published: 2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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