David Carey Jr. holds the Doehler Chair in History at Loyola University Maryland and is author of I Ask for Justice: Maya Women, Dictators, and Crime in Guatemala, 1898–1944 and Oral History in Latin America: Unlocking the Spoken Archive, among other books.

"Carey celebrates the alternative courses that people pursued to practice and receive care, illustrating that healing and medicine were constructed as much in rural communities as they were in laboratories and hospitals."

• CONTENTSList of Illustrations Foreword Jeremy A. GreeneAcknowledgments A Note on Sources, Methodology, and Evidence Abbreviations Introduction: Disease, Healing, and Medicine in Indigenous Highlands 1 • Hookworm, Histories, and Health: Indigenous Healing, State Building, and Rockefeller Representatives 2 • Curses and Cures: Empíricos, Indigeneity, and Scientific Medicine 3 • Engendering Infant Mortality and Public Health: Midwifery, Obstetrics, and Ethnicity 4 • “Malnourished, Scrawny, Emaciated Indios”: Perceptions of Indigeneity, Illness, and Healing 5 • Infectious Indígenas: The Ethnicity of Highland Diseases 6 • “Prisoners of Malaria”: A Lowland Disease in the Mountains Conclusion: Indigeneity, Racist Thought, and Modern Medicine Notes Bibliography Index

David Carey Jr. holds the Doehler Chair in History at Loyola University Maryland and is author of I Ask for Justice: Maya Women, Dictators, and Crime in Guatemala, 1898–1944 and Oral History in Latin America: Unlocking the Spoken Archive, among other books.

"Carey celebrates the alternative courses that people pursued to practice and receive care, illustrating that healing and medicine were constructed as much in rural communities as they were in laboratories and hospitals."

• CONTENTSList of Illustrations Foreword Jeremy A. GreeneAcknowledgments A Note on Sources, Methodology, and Evidence Abbreviations Introduction: Disease, Healing, and Medicine in Indigenous Highlands 1 • Hookworm, Histories, and Health: Indigenous Healing, State Building, and Rockefeller Representatives 2 • Curses and Cures: Empíricos, Indigeneity, and Scientific Medicine 3 • Engendering Infant Mortality and Public Health: Midwifery, Obstetrics, and Ethnicity 4 • “Malnourished, Scrawny, Emaciated Indios”: Perceptions of Indigeneity, Illness, and Healing 5 • Infectious Indígenas: The Ethnicity of Highland Diseases 6 • “Prisoners of Malaria”: A Lowland Disease in the Mountains Conclusion: Indigeneity, Racist Thought, and Modern Medicine Notes Bibliography Index

David Carey Jr. holds the Doehler Chair in History at Loyola University Maryland and is author of I Ask for Justice: Maya Women, Dictators, and Crime in Guatemala, 1898–1944 and Oral History in Latin America: Unlocking the Spoken Archive, among other books.

"Carey celebrates the alternative courses that people pursued to practice and receive care, illustrating that healing and medicine were constructed as much in rural communities as they were in laboratories and hospitals."

• CONTENTSList of Illustrations Foreword Jeremy A. GreeneAcknowledgments A Note on Sources, Methodology, and Evidence Abbreviations Introduction: Disease, Healing, and Medicine in Indigenous Highlands 1 • Hookworm, Histories, and Health: Indigenous Healing, State Building, and Rockefeller Representatives 2 • Curses and Cures: Empíricos, Indigeneity, and Scientific Medicine 3 • Engendering Infant Mortality and Public Health: Midwifery, Obstetrics, and Ethnicity 4 • “Malnourished, Scrawny, Emaciated Indios”: Perceptions of Indigeneity, Illness, and Healing 5 • Infectious Indígenas: The Ethnicity of Highland Diseases 6 • “Prisoners of Malaria”: A Lowland Disease in the Mountains Conclusion: Indigeneity, Racist Thought, and Modern Medicine Notes Bibliography Index