Abstract
«Medizinischer Humanitarismus und Pockenimpfung in Guatemala des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts». This article analyzes the introduction of smallpox inoculation in 1780 to the Audiencia of Guatemala, an area that roughly encompassed what is today modern Central America and the Mexican state of Chiapas. This first inoculation campaign was led by a modernizing sector of Guatemala's colonial elite, who considered it their moral responsibility to apply the new medical innovations of the era to cure and prevent disease among Guatemala's inhabitants, including the majority indigenous Maya population. Guatemala's first smallpox inoculation campaign provides an important case study for analyzing how discourses of health and moral responsibility towards Indians and other colonized peoples changed during the Enlightenment once an effective preventive therapy against smallpox began to be employed.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 303-317 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Historical Social Research |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| State | Published - 2012 |
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Keywords
- Central America
- Colonial medicine
- Guatemala
- Humanitarianism
- Inoculation
- Maya Indians
- Public health
- Smallpox
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- History
- Sociology and Political Science
- Social Sciences(all)
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Medical humanitarianism and smallpox inoculation in eighteenth-century Guatemala. / Few, Martha B.
In: Historical Social Research, Vol. 37, No. 3, 2012, p. 303-317.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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