Conquering Sickness

Download or read book Conquering Sickness written by Mark Allan Goldberg and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Racial and Ethnic Terminology -- Introduction -- 1 Medicine and Spanish Conquest: Health and Healing in Late Colonial Texas -- 2 The Health of the Missions: Spanish Friars, Coastal Indians, and Missionization in the Gulf Coast -- 3 Cholera and Nation: Epidemic Disease, Healing, and State Formation in Northern Mexico -- 4 Making Healthy American Settlements: U.S. Expansion and Anglo- American, Comanche, and Black Slave Health -- 5 Healthy Anglos, Unhealthy Mexicans: Health, Race, and Medicine in South Texas -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.