Public Health Concerns in the Aftermath of Disaster: Perspectives from Colonial and Modern Latin America

Conference on Latin American History 51
Sunday, January 4, 2015: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Carnegie Room East (Sheraton New York, Third Floor)
Chair:
Teresita Levy, Lehman College, City University of New York
Papers:
Earthquakes, Typhus, and the Cultural Construction of Colonial Medicine in Late Colonial Central America
Martha Few, University of Arizona
State and Public Health Responses to Natural Disasters: Earthquakes in Argentina and Chile, 1835–1939
Quinn Dauer, Indiana University Southeast
Treating Burns and Reducing Fire Risk: Hygiene Experts and the Fight against Fire Hazards in Mexico City, 1870–1910
Anna Alexander, Georgia Southern University
Hurricanes, Public Health, and Citizenship under Empire and Dictatorship: A Comparative Analysis of Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic during the Great Depression
Geoff Burrows, City University of New York, Graduate Center
Comment:
Mark Healey, University of Connecticut
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